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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WHAT THIS CULTURAL AUTHORITARIANISM COMPLETELY OVERLOOKS IS HOW RADICALLY THE CONGREGATIONS FOR LITURGICAL WORSHIP ARE CHANGING! THE SINGLE, CENTRAL KIND OF MUSIC HEARD IN CHURCH IN THE PAST HAS, AS IN SO MANY AREAS OF OUR LIFE, BEEN COMPLETELY OVERTAKEN BY A HUGE VARIETY OF STYLES AND TASTES: WHO IS TO SAY THAT DIFFERENT GENERATIONS CANNOT WORSHIP TO THE MUSIC OF PALESTRINA OR POP, JOSQUIN OR FLAMENCO??????????
For our part we doubt many people have been worshipping to flamenco lately -- we doubt very many have been worshipping at all in Spain, which is trying very hard to be The World's Most PC Nation™. (Or in Mexico, where the national religion is leaving the country.) And lots of our churches do worship to pop -- which maybe is why not too many people take the Catholic Church seriously in these parts. Heck we could worship to John Cage -- let's see the pews fill. Or [C]RAP -- I sense a new burst of Catholicism in the inner city! We suspect someone who gets his forehead into such furrows hasn't been to church lately, or at all (he IS British), but that's okay if it gives him permission to get MAD.
(Via the usual ArtsJournal.com, the ROMY of AHT)