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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.

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Sunday, June 22, 2003

Posted 6:11 PM by Gene

At Tony Award time I said that Broadway was a glorified tourist trap and the allegedly bustling theater scene outside New York was largely a thing of navel staring. Here's proof of both. All these geniuses trodding the earth writing musicals, and they're mad because -- the New York critics don't like them! Could it be that the reason the critics don't like them is because -- their music is no good? One of their excuses is they're up against the Broadway Branson machine, but because it disgorges so much bad and overrated doesn't make their work any better. So people like Adam Guettel (who'd be nowhere without that healthy dose of Richard Rodgers in his bloodline) have taken their acts on the road, to the usual appreciative crowds of 100. It is highly unlikely any of the names in this report will ever find an audience outside what the news hacks must call "cults." It's just not a good time for music, period -- not least because of the musicians.

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