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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We can be sure of this: 1. Several of the shows will be willed to success because Branson East's cash flow depends on them (Mary Poppins, Les Miz); 2. Several of the shows will be willed to success because they're self-evident IMMORTALITIES (A Chorus Line, the genius of HERR DOKTOR SONDHEIM); and 3. Several of the shows will be willed to success because the critics already have the raves in their hard drives (that sex musical). That there's not one worthy work among these masterpieces is obvious (Quick! Sing us an F-bomb!), but that won't prevent the BENs from selling them, or Branson East from deluding itself it's not a tourist trap.