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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Last year proved to be the hall's weakest for attendance, 413,000, down about 13% from the 476,000 in 2003, which was the first year it drew less than 500,000.
The totals are down substantially from the 873,000 who came the first full year in 1996.
We recall bitterly that the LEGENDARY Ahmet Ertegun launched the Mausoleum as a way of deking out Tipper Gore's lyric crusade. It figures now that Cleveland's stuck holding a rather sizable bag. (I can imagine how many TENS of MILLIONS in MU-NI-CI-PAL money have gone to this white elephant.) We can attribute this to one of three things: 1. Rock music stinks, 2. A Mausoleum in its honor wasn't that great an idea, especially as the time will come when it will "honor" BRITNEY and ASHLEE, or 3. BOTH. We'll go with 3.
P. S. It could be worse. The Mausoleum could be in PHILADELPHIA.