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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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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Posted 4:35 PM by Gene

It was depressing to behold, amidst the bus-and-truck companies whose fumes now stink up the once revered Academy of Music, the news that Harvey Korman and Tim Conway will bring their Vegas act there in March -- depressing because their combined ages at show time will be 149. Korman will be four years shy of Groucho's age when he was all but paraded on a gurney at Carnegie Hall. This sort of traveling Ripley's routine refutes THE MASTER's line as being not worth seeing or going to see. Thirty-five years ago with Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence and Paul Weston, and a few guest stars -- definitely.

(Correction on 7/19/2008 at 1:50 p.m.: Paul Weston had nothing to do with Carol Burnett, alas; I thought he did as her CBS show was in some ways a successor to Danny Kaye's -- Harvey Korman appeared on both -- and Weston was its musical director.)

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