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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One particular group, the Association of College and University Housing Officers International, is making a push to change that with an initiative called the 21st Century Project.
Earlier this year it polled everyone from students to architects to administrators in order to rethink the current college housing experience.
While the summit arrived at no specific answers, some attendees floated a number of ideas such as allowing students to alter their room color by turning a knob or having dorm furniture that could be stowed into the wall or floor when not in use.
"Some of this technology is out there, it just has never been put into this kind of application," explains Michael Coakley, the director of the 21st Century Project.
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