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've found something quite interesting -- and quite sad: an online history of David Sarnoff and RCA, the electronics and entertainment giant LEGENDARY WELCH eviscerated so he could schmooze in Hollywood. Three things did it in: Japan; technological incompetence (witness RCA's failure in mainframe computers and such famed "innovations" as SelectaVision, a video disc played with a needle); and Sarnoff's son Robert, who turned the company into a second-string conglomerate (Banquet frozen foods, Gibson greeting cards) while letting the company's heritage operations rot, thus making it easy pickins for that Legendary vulture. On my trips to work I cannot avoid RCA's ghosts, for visible on my ride from across the Delaware is a minor-league baseball stadium on the site of the old Victor Talking Machine plant; the building with the stained-glass Nipper is now apartments. Who needs consumer electronics when you have Sony?