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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, February 26, 2005

Posted 5:12 PM by Gene

A puff piece, but we'll forgive it as it's a sad puff piece: it's about an actual performing big band playing before audiences smaller than itself. Maybe there's a reason: it does the artsy-craftsy stuff ("Well, it's sort of like in between Buddy Rich and something really modern"). There could be an audience for big-band, but we're so far removed from that music's height it's inconceivable how, and there are the unions, and the lack of good venues -- and what's more, with jazz dead, those who persist at it are musical archeologists excavating the same old fossils; we must include, I fear, these guys. One should pat these guys on the back for soldiering on, but you wonder if some gaggle of jazzsters with a little imagination, and few comely songbirds up front, and no fear of PLAYING FOR THE AUDIENCE -- or for DANCING -- mightn't do better.

P. S. This is from NIGHTLINE. We can guess what LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM's favorite music is: the BOSS -- and THE SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE.

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