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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, November 26, 2008

Posted 8:47 AM by Gene

We must comment on "The Chairman" because our favorite Branson East columnist does so. Reading between the lines it is obvious he wasn't a warm and fuzzy guy. You couldn't be running an organization with Shubert in its name. And the Shuberts weren't warm and fuzzy guys. Back when the play biz was producing O'Neills and Gerswhins it didn't matter; they ran the trains on time. Now their heirs are real-estate men, SUMNERS without so much goodwill, and they've gone from being terrors to mere anachronisms much as Branson East serves no purpose but to give people a weekend off. Bringing back tyrants will not bring show-biz back -- SLIME proves that notion. But something is missing. Maybe the tyrants knew something.

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