Eugene David
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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, January 19, 2010

Posted 6:36 PM by Gene

As part of my continuing obsession with music downloads I've found a site (again, no links) with a fair sampling of the bad music that dominated game shows in the seventies, stuff like "Banjoman Meets Baretta" and "Deep (Blank)", and among its offerings are not one but two versions of the theme from the 1979 syndicated game show Make -- Me Laugh! (emphasis added), yes, the show that dared contestants not to laugh at such outstanding comic geniuses as "Bob Saget, Howie Mandel, Gallagher, Gary Mule Deer, Yakov Smirnoff, Bruce 'Babyman' Baum and Garry Shandling", but unfortunately not Jay Leno, who would have fit right in. I watched it often and never laughed ONCE. This was the show Bobby Van emceed only to die of brain cancer afterwards. I know there wasn't a connection but in a way there is. Make -- Me Laugh! and Bobby Van's terminal illness are a big reason why I think so highly of stand-up.

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