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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, May 26, 2006

Posted 10:59 AM by Gene

Another eulogy for our culture: We suspect even Wagner never had to worry about "an imposing 48-foot-long, 28-foot-tall, 20-ton set piece, run by 26 assorted motors, on which about 80% of the opera's action takes place." With any good composer, the music would be the thing. With a spectacle like this the production must be the thing, a production so overwhelming it sends the unmistakable message that this "opera" wouldn't need such loudly meshing electro-mechanical gears if the MUSIC were other than JUNK. It will get RAVED regardless, like JERRY SPRINGER and NIXON IN CHINA, by idiot hacks who MUST be in with the in-crowd, but at the very least the need for 20-ton set pieces would seem to dim its hopes for revival.

(Via the usual ArtsJournal.com)

And in more news of tomorrow's archival dust collectings, the Tune Machine what wrote the immortal Wicked is writing what Opera News calls an "opera."

(Via Playbill.com, which is all about reporting on archival dust collectings)

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