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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 23, 2005

Posted 9:33 PM by Gene

Tonight I finally got around to playing the Silk Stockings soundtrack, and I must say for all the exultations of [C]RAPPERS as GENIUSES it turned me as much upside down and around as the Iron Lung once did to Fred Astaire. This is probably a better album than it is a movie. One thing: I'll never understand why people (among them that very intelligent composer and writer the late Alec Wilder) find "All of You" offensive. It's just a great songwriter further refining his double-entendre skills in an endearing way onto a most sweet melody. If anything it's a wonder a song like "Josephine" made it past the Hays Office -- that double-entendre's quite single. (Puzzling, too: LEGS sang adequately, but they dubbed her anyway. Life is unfair.) Of course good things like the Freed Unit could not last, and MGM is now nothing more than a Sony brand name, but we can dream of a glorious past, in the forlorn hope that someday it can return.

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