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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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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Posted 8:16 AM by Gene

It's easy to do the devil's advocate routine here but predicting CDs and DVDs will go away may be like predicting the paperless office. Erasable media are apt for erasable culture -- [C]RAP, grossout "comedies" -- but good culture deserves something you can grasp. You can't accidentally delete a CD. The big advantage of sorting media files may not be so big when you have 10,000 files. And maybe hard drives are getting huge, but one crash and there goes your movie library. And it's not clear downloaded media enjoy that big a price advantage either: the other day I went to Amazon.com and bought the Gone with the Wind Collectors' Edition for $20 ($5 a disc) and Complete Birth of the Cool for $10 -- on sale, to be sure, but this points out another thing: CDs and DVDs may now be price-competitive because their "infrastructure" costs are surely not much higher than downloads' (don't forget Brian Robber). And hard though the Bugmeister may try, most downloads do not have cover art.

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