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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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Posted 5:22 PM by Gene

Upon hearing the TRAGIC news that the Queen "musical" has closed in Toronto -- yes, that one -- and upon hearing the further explanation that "[b]y the time its Toronto run ends, We Will Rock You will have played 61 weeks, been seen by more than 700,000 people, and generated an estimated economic spin-off to the city of $250 million, according to the producers" (TRANSLATION: It lost money, and if it didn't someone's lying with statistics), we hunted up its London cast album on two of Amazon.com's sites and found another reason its customer rankings are unreliable. The semi-literate (if that) British fans LOOOOOOOOOOOOVED it (FIVE STARS!!!!!), the Americans were a little cooler to it (only four). So geography can screw up a rating too. We'd guess there are five or six reasons in all you can't trust Amazon.com reader reviews, and for us two is enough.

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