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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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Thursday, July 22, 2004

Posted 7:01 AM by Gene

I know little of Jerry Goldsmith other than that his schtick was dissonance -- you know a Goldsmith score by the rows and rows of threatening chords; call it Music to Remake Buck Rogers By -- but his death reminds us there was a time, before movies became better than ever and their soundtracks greatest-hits anthologies, when people knew film composers by name -- Steiner, Newman, Waxman, Korngold, Rosza, Herrmann, Raksin -- and they knew them because they wrote music that stood on its own count, away from the flickering of the movie house.  Thankfully the Beatles and Bob Dylan and the latest crapper ALWAYS trump that.

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