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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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Thursday, August 05, 2004

Posted 5:33 PM by Gene

Before the news hacks launch into this, they should launch into this. The fight between satellite radio and LOWSY may be a lose-lose: on the one side, the satellite radio types hemorrhage money; on the other side, they force enough listener defections so that radio stations play fewer ads and step up their own digital simulcasts (that's ALL they are), sapping their huge profits. Eventually the dish-radio types may cut their losses by upping the advertising quotient, which means all the people shelling out for satellite radio really ARE getting cable in the car. Nor would I be surprised if the dish-radio providers "rationalize" themselves (i.e., cut out classical and jazz) as a cost-cutting move. Then we'd have pay-for-CHEAP in the car. One other thing: when do people demand a la carte?

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