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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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Monday, October 16, 2006

Posted 8:23 AM by Gene

We are not surprised the idiotic DVD format war is hurting HD sales; it exposes high-def as just a fancy new pipe for the same old sewage. And people don't want to pay again for product already in their homes. What's more Consumer Reports's ratings of flat-screen sets showed most delivered about the same picture quality in HD and DVD (though much improved from standard-def). This is exactly like the format war in high-def audio, fought to huge public indifference and tiny sales. HD audio is about improving quality on the margins, and so is HDTV, and very few people are audiophiles, video or otherwise.

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