Eugene David
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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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Monday, September 04, 2006

Posted 10:44 PM by Gene

Anything and everything must have a Web "tribute" site. By accident I came across this one for something virtually unknown, but which (supposedly) once captivated zillions: the NBC radio show Monitor. Listening to the few bad transfers we wonder what captivated the zillions about Gene Rayburn unfunnily ad-libbing, or Bert Parks greasily schmoozing, or Ray Goulding doing an antique me-Tonto routine, or Ernie Kovacs being impenetrable. It will not do to say Monitor was one of those "you had to be there" experiences, like KERNGERSHWIN HAMMERSTEIN'S IMMORTAL MUSICAL, but that somebody can say how "beloved" something was when the fact remains totally unobvious says a phenomenon's time may have gone well before the phenomenon.

P. S. Here's the show's "theme music", which suggests a TouchTone phone gone berserk. This musical gibberish makes the pre-Erich Wolfgang Korngold chimes on the NBC Nightly News sound heavenly. We are told "Gen." David Sarnoff HATED it. He had sense, unlike the "LEGENDARY" PAT WEAVER, who for all we know may have lost the chance to run RCA because of it.

(Monitor links updated 2/19/2009; site's URL changed from .com to .net)

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