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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“I conduct because I love to make love to the past.”
For someone who wrote the old piano-banging twelve-tone this is interesting. We're told that to worship the past is not only unworthy, but the mark of an old fogy. But despite writing a lot of stuff that (we fear) is doomed to gather dust Foss was man enough to admit maybe our musical best is in the past, and however much we may champion the a-vant GAHHHHDE being in the forefront somehow has moved us to the rear. Better to immerse yourself in a past of something than in a future of nothing.
(Via the usual ArtsJournal)