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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At the end of 2004, Sirius had 1.14 million subscribers, or a market share of about 26.1 percent of satellite subscribers when weighed against rival XM's 3.23 million subscribers.
With a steady drumbeat of publicity over 14 months, Sirius has been able to move the needle just four percentage points.
Since Jan. 1, Sirius has added 1.06 million subscribers, or about 353,000 per quarter, for a total count of 2.2 million, or 30.4 percent market share.
XM has added almost twice as many subscribers, swelling its base by 1.8 million through the first three-quarters of this year to 5.03 million.
And the hard market share gain came at a price. Sirius pays, on average, more than $150 for each subscriber gained, while XM pays one-third of that.
And the radio conspiracy has just started with its digital initiative; it has a chance to knock some wind out of sat-radio's gasbags. No doubt it will be just CHEAP CHANNEL TIMES THREE. And the home-theater geeks at avsforum.com generally don't think highly of sat-radio's sound. Is a new kind of lousy worth $13 a month?