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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Lately I've been trying to chase down interesting music on the Web. With talk of a "celestial jukebox" it's a hopeless cause but I trudge on: and in that trudge I discovered one of my fellow Blogspotters posted this outstanding album from an orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman, then head A&R man for Verve; but as you can see it wasn't credited that way, and indeed though he didn't lead the band it could not have been credited to anyone but its arranger, Conrad Salinger. As I said some time back that name must bring a lump to the throat of music lovers, and especially soundtrack lovers. He was arguably film's greatest orchestrator, with those always identifiable fillips of eloquence. It was not long ago this business could put forth truly civilized music. Now, we have only noise.
CAVEAT: This blogger uses Rapidshare, a punitive site that forces delays and inconveniences on your downloads unless you pony up; and he also uses the arcane .flac extension. Well, at least this was no problem.