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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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Friday, November 25, 2005

Posted 1:18 PM by Gene

Today passing the Academy of Music Garage while coming home from lunch (I took today off owing to the holiday) I saw some kids clambering out of a matinee of -- ANNIE, and I thought, this garage has reverted to its oldest days. Long before it became internationally known through Stokowski and Ormandy and Muti, the Academy no doubt played preposterous mellerdrammers and fifth-rate Sheridan knockoffs like Fashion and grand opry, the musicals of their day. One suspects back then they had the most oinkish ham acting; today they have zillion-dollar lighting boards. There is no essential difference; the Academy played bad then, and as a bus-and-truck-company garage it's playing bad now.

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