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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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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Posted 5:30 PM by Gene

Elsewhere in the THEA-TAH, Terry Teachout has devoted 1,021 words defending his rave of that spelling-bee musical. It might not occur to him that if he has to be so defensive -- so exceedingly defensive the masterwork may not be the second coming of My Fair Lady. Not long ago we noted he and another fine critic had opposite-extreme opinions about Kristin Chenoweth, but we could readily excuse that as a fluke. Having nothing but the most vigorous contempt for the ad-blurb copywriting brigade we are not so sure, now. Their business too often is to sell, and when they can't sell, to be superior apologetically. Mr. Teachout has no reason to apologize, but if he applied a keener skepticism to such works, he'd avoid the copywriter's trap of falling in love at first sight, and might not have to write another 1,021 words defending another show.

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