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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"All this price-gouging is going on, the producers have never been richer and yet they want us to take cuts," grouses one stagehand. "We should suffer so they can get richer?"
Producers counter that big grosses are not the same as profits and that, in fact, only one in five shows recoups its production cost.
"Twenty-five years ago, one in four shows recouped, so we've gone backwards," says a veteran producer. "That's not a very bright picture. That's not a very healthy industry to be in.
"The stagehands will say, 'Well, you're not very good managers then.'..."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN!!!!!
"...To which we say: 'How can we be, with the rates we pay you?'"
In the REAL Branson they don't have unions. Why should a mere imitation? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
Speaking of Kerngershwin:
* Best line of the week, apropos the $450 ticket for "Young Frankenstein," starring Roger Bart (as Dr. Frankenstein):
"Four hundred and fifty dollars for the Roger Bart show? Please."
Only in Branson East!