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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, July 16, 2005

Posted 9:11 AM by Gene

This is the HOLY GRAIL of the NEW THEATAH: to revive AN IMMORTAL MASTERPIECE. But none of the DOKTOR's ETERNAL VERITIES has ever been profitably revived on Broadway. Who wants to spend a whole evening with a DOWNER? (Indeed his only enduringly popular work with the people -- certainly at colleges -- may be A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, perhaps because it's Watered-Down Bawdy Humor Made E-Z -- and DESPITE a GAWDAWFUL MOVIE VERSION.) Nonetheless his thousands of millions of fans will keep trying, until every last one of these treasures goes the way of VICTOR HERBERT. And people can still hum "Indian Summer."

I hate to keep harping on this MASTER, but he's one of these GENIUSES -- like Dylan, like Bruce, like Martin -- whom the HACKS regard as BULLETPROOF, largely because by merely citing his name they think they're being INTELLIGENT. Saying EINSTEIN a million times does NOT raise your IQ.

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