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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Does anyone here recall CBS (before it got Tischized and Sumnerized) made TVs? Yes, CBS made TVs -- and radios and phonographs and tape recorders too (which appear all the time guess where). If you look carefully you'll see CBS engaged in some Ike-era synergy. That's Arthur Godfrey (I'm certain) below the two circles, and that's probably Jack Benny on the second set on the right (I don't know who the woman is). They both starred on CBS.
Here's a better picture from an ad (not from an eBay link, but eBay's good at getting your curiosity and pocktbook going): that's a CBS color television from 1954 ($1,100 retail). Such a BIG cabinet, such a SMALL picture. That's Ed Sullivan, of course. He starred on CBS too. The company apparently stopped making TVs in the late fifties and left consumer electronics altogether by 1970.
And speaking of TVs, here is one reason America left consumer electronics:
