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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“We keep hearing that down-sized productions reveal a musical’s core content, as if theatergoing were an anatomy lesson,” said Ethan Mordden, author of several books on musical theater, including the 2008 biography “Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business.” “In fact these works were conceived to be big and busy, to fill the eye and ear. Without casting, design, choreography and orchestration on the grand scale, the shows aren’t tightened but diminished.”
Why not? Diminished shows for a diminished age. Every age gets the culture it deserves -- and the age deserves Show Boat for peewees and kazoo band, even if some of us don't.