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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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Monday, February 21, 2005

Posted 10:15 AM by Gene

John Raitt was more than (as the dutiful indifferent moronic TWXSTERS must refer to him) BONNIE'S FATHER; he was at the center of, in many ways the personification of the Rodgers and Hammerstein era, a virile leading man with a strong memorable baritone. Yes, there was a time when Broadway not only turned out masterworks, but the men and women to perform them. Raitt, Alfred Drake, Mary Martin, Barbara Cook -- it all seems like eons ago, which it was, an era as hopelessly gone as the stupors of Hunter Thompson's drug-befuddled mind. But high-schools still do Carousel, while it is quite unlikely that in time Thompson's works will stir other than historians.

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