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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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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Posted 4:55 PM by Gene

If anyone who were to skim me (doubtful with twelve hits thus far today) were to think my last post harsh, I say, read this review of the newly reformulated The Fantasticks, which got its start when Maynard Ferguson was 32. Among the words Ben Brantley uses are "resuscitation", "embalmed", "corpse" and "formaldehyde" -- all in the first two grafs. That he ends his review by almost praising the show -- and that must owe exclusively to the music: if its book is a mishmash of college-level artsy-fartsy even its detractors must admit the score is an agreeable and even memorable one -- does not negate his central scorn. This is why I complain about Maynard Ferguson, and what passes for classical music, and fillum, and the thea-TAH; today's culture is not so much performed as preserved, or else it is a petered-out blast from the past, or else it is all grinding machinery and highest high-tech employed largely to hide the emptiness of its soul.

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