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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David Hare's "Stuff Happens," stirringly directed by Gordon Davidson last summer at the Mark Taper Forum, represents one of the more compelling theatrical forays into disastrous current events. The play, which was just updated for a new production at the New York Public Theater, corrals the Bush and Blair administrations into a penetrating dramatization of the lead-up to this latest Iraq invasion. And instead of skewing the material toward a predictable bias, Hare finds in Colin Powell a protagonist who can movingly embody the diplomatic tragedy that paves the road to any war. [Emphasis added.]
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Oh and by the way, just because you use the words "left-leaning" doesn't make your piece any less so.
(Via ArtsJournal.com)