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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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Friday, June 06, 2003

Posted 5:25 PM by Gene

Perhaps "to bemoan the dearth of serious new work on Broadway" is "a hackneyed lament," but to say things are going gangbusters in "off-Broadway," "regional theater," blahblahblah, is an equally hackneyed compliment. How many plays have made the transition from the 100-seat venues, the places where the players know the audience because the same people keep showing up, the land of the eternal navel staring, to the big time? And sorry, Financial Times, a healthy theater once co-existed with a healthy movie business and a healthy radio business. Today all forms of entertainment are equally sick from lack of inspiration (or as the FT hack might say, glutted with "genius"), and sorry, FT, when hardly anybody sees your gangbuster off-Broadway, regional theater, blahblahblah masterpieces, you have an art form without an audience.

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