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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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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Posted 3:34 PM by Gene

And now we have another manufactured phenomenon in the "OPERA" biz -- a musical about the invention of the atomic bomb. John Adams is a name that gets the hacks' hearts beating rapidly because he writes "operas" about topical themes -- Nixon, Klinghoffer. That he can't write music worth a tinker's damn says something, too: here is another work that hardly exists at all outside media outlets, and here is another soon-to-be-forgotten Victor Herbert for our generation, without melody and with an ATTITUDE.

We are reminded again of something THE MASTER said to Boswell:

BOSWELL. "Does not Gray's poetry, Sir, tower above the common mark?" JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir; but we must attend to the difference between what men in general cannot do if they would, and what every man may do if he would. Sixteen-String Jack towered above the common mark."

We live amidst HUGE POPULATIONS of Sixteen-String Jacks.

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