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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Everyone has something to sit in front of and listen to music on, right?
Not any more. In a surprisingly short period of time, the hi-fi as we know it has been rendered obsolete, tossed into the dustbin of history. According to the U.S.-based Consumer Electronics Association, sales in 1999 for individual audio components -- CD players, tuners, etc. -- exceeded 270,000 units.
By 2003, that number had shrunk to roughly 20,000 pieces, barely enough to sustain a niche market.
It does not help that the Consumer Electronics Association has a hard-to-use-site, but this number is unquestionably typing. 270,000 audio components sold in 1999 -- and 20,000 in 2003? Circuit City and Best Buy should be out of business. Who says blogs are the leading source of wrong information?
(Via the inevitable ArtsJournal.com, which seems to link to the Globe and Mail more often than anyone else, perhaps because it's Canadian. Eh?)