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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After yesterday's open house, tonight's gala, and the launch this week of the theater's first production, Being Alive, Garonzik and board president E. Gerald Riesenbach will turn back to raising the $10 million needed to reach the project's $30 million goal ($25 million for construction, $5 million to establish an endowment).
So far the biggest donations are $5 million from the state and $3 million from the city. [Twenty-first and twenty-second of TWENTY-FOUR GRAFS]
TRANSLATION: We have a state subsidized 365-seat play-with-itself thea-TAH. FURTHER TRANSLATION: It's named for a tax deduction for BRIAN ROBBER. If we're going to have the state in show-biz let's go whole hog and DO IT.