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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, June 11, 2007

Posted 5:03 PM by Gene

One last note about the Thea-TAH: A Stale.com hack trots out the crusty old canard that the arts reflect the times they're in. By that measure people should have jumped off buildings going to the movies in the Depression. Only in recent memory have we allowed our angst to get the better of our art; problem is, we don't have any people who can write happily credibly. Have you heard a pop tune in a major key lately? It sounds like aerobics music. Don't just blame the sad tenor of the times; blame the sad tenor of the art.

And we may further wonder about our cultural genius when said hack sighs of one of the geniuses behind this year's award-winning "musical" tourist trap:
The way he's written this show suggests that if he had created The Music Man, Harold Hill would have sung, "You have a mess right here in River City/ With a Capital [sic] M/ And that rhymes with P, which stands for pool."
No doubt he would have.

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