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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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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Posted 2:09 PM by Gene

Wilfrid Sheed has written a book about -- well, let's list the names as Jonathan Yardley does -- Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, "Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser", Arthur Schwartz and "heaven knows how many others", and he throws in Fred Astaire for good measure because he introduced so many of their best (and he was a songwriter too, in several ways), and despite the ebullient mood and eager grin inevitably it must be a eulogy, for we know these tunesmiths aren't around anymore, nor the talent, nor the inspiration, nor Fred Astaire; and it won't do to say at least we have their work in recordings and on DVDs, because there's nothing new to supplement it, and that (to say the least) is a frustration.

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