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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I just bought a MiniDisc machine (uBid's having a fire sale for Sony) and am waiting for MICKEY D's to waste some money on me.
P. S. I know, I know ALL about the big debate of iPod vs. MiniDisc, I know ALL about how MDs lack capacity, how they're inconvenient to download, and you can't upload analog recordings at high speed, but when I first laid eyes on my new recorder I could not stop marvelling at it whatever its quirks. I can even enter titles with the jog dial. If THAT isn't the measure of a dweeb. (Sony's answering its critics with a new incompatible generation of MD machines -- and a fire sale. It's hard to believe this isn't the last gasp for the format.)