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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Bloggers like PROF and STERNO and ANDY and BLEAT and the whole gang that thinks it'll LIVE FOREVER THROUGH TECHNOLOGY should consider the sad fate of so many CDs deteriorating in record collections everywhere. To be sure, it probably only affects a small fraction of all CDs ever sold, but by placing our cultural fate in something as impermanent as zeroes and ones we risk our culture vanishing without a trace. The Gutenberg Bible lives; Shakespeare's First Folio lives. They're on paper, a medium that can last for centuries and cannot be upgraded into oblivion. PROF and his stellar COMPANY can only live through upgrades, and eventually that white knight won't come to the rescue.