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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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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Posted 4:59 PM by Gene

Several months ago we predicted a new ge-NIUS o-pe-RA would "stink." Alas, there is no joy in our vindication. Why? Even the pans were apologetic. B-b-b-but...the film was BRILLIANT! S-s-s-so was the c-c-c-composer! We never expect anything of contemporary o-pe-RA because it exists largely as an excuse to waste foundation money, and as an exercise in PC. More to the point, how can o-pe-RA mu-SIC be good in this age? But the apologies leave us to believe the next time a masterwork isn't flat-out-unendurably BAD as this one surely is it will get raves. All is has to do is come up to the level of, say, A Streetcar Named Desire and it will have scaled Everest; climbing to the level of Nixon in China and it will reach the moon. That is why we expect nothing from o-pe-RA -- nothing but future RAVES.

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