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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Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet!!!!!!!!!!
Which we can hope is a cover jinx and portends another blowout. And of course being Mr. Mark's rag it's full of trendy-sounding nonsense, such as:
The smartest guy in the room is everybody.
No, the smartest guy in the room is the guy who owns the machinery, like Larry and Sergey, and RUPERT, and -- well, you get the picture? (Now to talk ST. WARREN out of His Webophobia.)
Tom Sawyer was an early adopter.
So far as we know Tom Sawyer never had a computer, and the closest Mark Twain came to one was an automated typesetter that didn't work.
It's all one Web.
So why have we heard so much talk of separate and unequal Webs?
It's not an audience, it's a community.
Yes, a community of millions typing alone. Honest Mr. Mark, you've impressed me today more than ever!
The bad news is Devin's looking for a big executive job in Hollywood again, and he insists "horror" (read violent porno) movies will run their course, meaning they'll go on forever.
P. S. A movie ad-blurbist THINKS:
Can we really be surprised, at a time when huge segments of the shockproof public are inured to the concept of real-life torture, that our horrormeisters are working overtime to test the limits of our sang-froid?
TRANSLATION: If it weren't for DUBYA and RUMMY and CONDI and all those EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL people in the WHITE HOUSE we could ENJOY violent porno!