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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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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Posted 3:28 PM by Gene

One of the Web sites we use to steal -- pardon, DOWNLOAD music has brought us some badly recorded demos of a Honeymooners musical from 1983 (it says here). You may recall the songwriters: Menken and Ashman were MICKEYMOUSE NIXON's amanuenses, writing songs for His animated features the cri-TICS uniformly called genius; but from the minute or so we could stand to listen the songs sounded sappy, and were sung sappily -- we guess by one of the writers. There was nothing sappy about The Honeymooners; and though he didn't write music The Great One did a immensely better job creating his two famous themes than MICKEYMOUSE"s hacks could do writing a MILLION cartoon features.

P. S. at 7:09 p. m. It appears only Menken wrote the songs; they still smell.

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