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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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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Posted 10:57 AM by Gene

We’re surprised Jed of the Broadway theater oligopoly didn’t trot out the AMERICAN PEEPUL biz in defending higher ticket prices, like that politician Larry in Boston. We will confess to being frustrated by stories like this, for a small part of us yearns to see live entertainment, and that is increasingly a thing only for the rich, unless you want to be greatly inconvenienced with SRO or having to camp out weeks in advance to get cheap tickets. That said, our consolation is this is not an age of O’Neill and Williams and Maxwell Anderson and Kaufman and Hart and Gershwin and Berlin and R&H and Porter, just labor-intensive THEME PARKS.

And how to know a man may be up to something:

Four out of five shows fail to recover costs, according to Mr. Bernstein.

When an industry makes money hand over fist its chief lobbyist ALWAYS pleads POVERTY. Although we will say given some of this industry's masterworks we ALMOST believe him.

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