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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Truth is, we need a healthy recorded-music business. But three things work against it: 1) the teen disposable-music obsessive-compulsive crowd's desire to put everything on computers and portables, bypassing hard copies; 2) an obsolete pricing strategy, adopted over twenty years ago, when CDs were still new (and not yet superior to LPs; the first machines had harsh sound) and expensive to make, and the technology had yet to merge with computers; and 3) the biz' utter dependence on rock, and the long-past mining out of that musical vein. But more than sales quirks and strategies are why the record biz is in the pits; above everything else, its creative juices have totally dried up, in every genre. Making music more accessible and more affordable won't cure the absolute dissipation of its genius. The loathsome moguls are right to be scared, but they're scared for the wrong reasons.