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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, December 30, 2005

Posted 8:23 AM by Gene

Mr. Know-It-All of classical music, who had recently trumpeted a stirring fanfare for the NEW GOLDEN AGE OF MUSICALS, is crestfallen that his hero KERNGERSHWIN HAMMERSTEIN could NOT come to the movies' rescue with his stupid Nazi dance routines and swishy theater types and all the hilarity that made THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME a hot ticket for a year, the masterpiece having been held hostage by a totally untalented director (who was once THE GREATEST CHOREOGRAPHER OF ALL TIME) who filmed it as though she were working with the Vitaphone. Now we are forced to contemplate the empty seats greeting the imposters on Broadway, and the empty seats greeting this immortality at hundreds of theaters, and are forced to sigh, with Mr. Know-It-All, that perhaps our master of the dancing pigeons has feet of -- clay pigeons, and can only wait hopefully to "next year" -- and LALA BOHEME.

What planet are you on, Norm?

(Via the usual ArtsJournal.com)

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