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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, February 15, 2006

Posted 2:08 PM by Gene

We can guess what another kind of effete snob -- the second rate o-pe-RA cri-TIC -- wants from the opera house: "the Stephen Sondheim musical 'A Little Night Music'" (despite the fact it "didn't do as well at the box office as expected and left a large deficit"), a "provocative intellectual approach of using opera as a lens for the exploration of social issues", and above all, "a heavy dose of controversial fare." He does NOT want music, and especially not good music, and even if he did there's hardly an army of Bizets and Puccinis knocking down the Met's doors to provide it. In the end we'll get more Jerry Springers and Nixon in Chinas, and the aging opera crowd will get angrier and smaller, and opera will join other art forms in total dust-collecting irrelevance.

(Via the INEVITABLE ArtsJournal.com)

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