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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, June 30, 2006

Posted 8:23 PM by Gene

Add opera buffs to the GET A LIFE! crowd. Recently I bought (from one of my favorite retailers, Berkshire Record Outlet) a copy of the very famous Maria Callas recording from 1953 of Puccini's Tosca, mostly because it was cheap -- $7.99 (and that's because it came in a supremely oddball format only the record's publisher EMI seems to use: the Extended Audio Disc -- an audio-only DVD-video; it's so oddball I cannot find the album or its catalog number using GOOGLE!). Not having heard the work I went over to Amazon.com for some learning only to step into a never-ending screaming match over whose Tosca is best. I probably won't listen to this for awhile; opera is the professional wrestling of music, and much of it's sad, as befits a form that seems inordinately devoted to diseases and death. But the opera crowd doesn't help their music's cause with an obsession with minutiae befitting scifi fans and itself beyond opéra bouffe, being self-satire.

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