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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A National Research Council report pointed out last September that...the United States is spending more than $25 billion so that three scientists can perform just 20 hours of scientific work in orbit weekly. Under agreement with Russia, the U.S. share is 7.5 hours [emphasis added].
That's it. We have no choice. End the shuttle project, abandon the space station, and start anew from scratch. This is the only way to revive the space program. If it means not having a space elevator for billion-dollar high-school-science kits or astronauts waving "Hi mom" for NASA TV, so be it.
In another story (the Post did a good job today), radar picked up something coming off Columbia a day into the mission. Space junk seems to be creeping up as a possible cause of the disaster. And we still don't know what that piece of debris that struck the orbiter was.