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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, July 11, 2005

Posted 5:38 PM by Gene

Somebody celebrated a birthday before 18,000 at Hollywood Bowl. The invited guests are enough to make you wish God had not invented candles: Elaine Stritch, Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, Bernadette Peters, Barbara Cook, not to mention a bunch of who-are-theys known principally to musical-comedy fans (or I should say "musical," as the birthday boy took the comedy out). Babs and Warren were there, and while they too summon up visions of SocSec they only make us yearn for duct tape. As for the birthday boy, possibly his MASTERWORKS will have long lives in Noo Yawk and LALALAND, where self-obsession is a local hobby, but we wouldn't want to bet on the vast mid-section that still yearns for actual music.

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