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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Band is topnotch, filled with some of New York's best players (many on leave from orchestra pits around town). Seventeen musicians is, as Feinstein points out, more than you'll hear at some Broadway hits (including "Jersey Boys," "In the Heights," "Chicago," "Mamma Mia" and "Hairspray").
We don't want to think back to when New York had far more musicians employed than now, and far more bands, and far more great music. In the late thirties Count Basie packed his band into the veritable equivalent of a broom closet in Midtown -- we can imagine how THAT sounded. Now it's minimalist theme parks, and AudioAnimatronics.