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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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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Posted 9:11 AM by Gene

Here's another for-instance from the world's leading biznews rag: Kodak sounds as if it's come up with a neat new technology for printer ink. Problem is someone has to make the printers -- and that will probably be Hong Chong Printer Manufacturing Co. of China, just as Ching Chang Printer Company makes them for HP, and Ying Yong Technology Company makes them for Lexmark, and -- get the point? All we make is the ink, if that, and truth to tell there isn't much difference in computer printers. So how does a "struggling" firm like Kodak distinguish itself -- and how does it make fat profits? (Especially when the company intends to compete on price.) This is precisely why Motorola has struggled: anyone can make cell phones. The thing is why does it always have to be someone else?

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