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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Getting into a fight involving THE PROFESSOR is useless, but several things are obvious: 1. If people didn't waste their time surfing they'd waste it doing something else. 2. $178 BILLION sounds like the kind of stat someone invents to milk the taxpayer. 3. Any company with a good Web policy will have antivirus and anti-spyware programs on every computer and prod the employees to use them.
Web browsing in the workplace should not be unlimited. Porn sites should be completely verboten, as should sending large video files and pirating any copyrighted material. So should trashing your bosses and coworkers on blogs. The answer to alleged "productivity" problems is not computer lockdowns.