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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[Lorin] Maazel has merely provided a soundtrack to the story. The vocal lines are characterless and his score adds nothing to the uncertain dramatic trajectory or to the work's rather top-heavy structure (the first act lasts 100 minutes, the second less than 50), with music that is a lexicon of the most obvious borrowings.
The appearance of a children's chorus provokes writing that might have been left over from Lionel Bart's Oliver!; the love scenes veer between Puccini-like verismo and the works of Richard Rodgers.
Rising tension is signalled by menacing Hammer-horror ostinatos, and moments of heavy-handed satire that evoke the spirit of 1920s Kurt Weill.
And when O'Brien tells Winston that he must learn to love Big Brother he does so to a tune that really would be more appropriate for selling ice cream than as the climax of a supposedly serious opera.
With all these borrowings Mr. Maazel should bring it to America -- where he'd be acclaimed a GENIUS!