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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, April 09, 2005

Posted 8:00 PM by Gene

Has anyone ever heard Hoyt Curtin's end-title music to The Jetsons? It's a stupid question. But not long ago I downloaded it (a pirated version; it was issued by Rhino only in a multi-disc set of Hanna-Barbera music long deleted) and have played it again and again and marveled just how good it is. You couldn't tell in 1962 through low-fi speakers and under the SFX and dialogue and the usual audio promo burying it. The show stank -- typical chintzy HB limited animation and godawful dialogue -- but the theme was so striking and brilliantly played one only pines if the whole show was up to that level. Of course it could never be; Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were in the business of selling cereal and toys and grape juice (and CIGARETTES) to kids, certainly not of doing anything good, which is why despite being technically part of the Time Warner tyranny the company has largely vanished from memory. But you must concede some of their theme songs were the best.

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