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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, November 30, 2005

Posted 5:00 PM by Gene

So Seussical is a hit with bus-and-truck companies and amateurs. In the nineteenth century there were no doubt dozens of extremely popular plays performed in hundreds of venues that will -- that could never be performed again. We've noted before The Black Crook was one of the greatest musical hits of all time. The Black What? Posterity's wheels will slowly grind properties like this into dust -- more easily because there's nothing to them but dust.

Since the word "license" appears twenty times in this story we gather this is a rewrite of a press release, or done under very close supervision. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK award to Ken!

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