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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, September 12, 2005

Posted 6:39 AM by Gene

Well, we're happy the spelling-bee musical made back its production costs, and is now on track to earn umpteen gazillions on tour, but we must ask, off the top of your head, can you name a musical of the last twenty years? No Mamma Mia -- that's cheating. So's MONTY PYTHON'S BLAZING SADDLES and that animated movie at the New Amsterdam. Okay, KERNGERSHWIN HAMMERSTEIN'S immortality. But even that doesn't qualify as it's a tourist trap. Anything else? You mean you can't conjure up a Show Boat, a South Pacific, a My Fair Lady? Come on -- SOMETHING must have opened in this era! Name ONE MUSICAL! You can't do it? Better luck next time.

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