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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Oracle's courthouse claims that SAP stole from it gigabytes of valuable customer-support software from September 2006 to January include dozens of stunning allegations that, if true, describe one of the most egregious cases of corporate shenanigans in computing industry history.
Oracle alleged in the lawsuit that workers at an SAP subsidiary "copied and swept thousands of Oracle products and other proprietary and confidential materials into its own servers" using fake log-ins or credentials stolen from legitimate, high profile Oracle customers like Honeywell, Merck & Co., Bear Sterns [SIC], and others.
The trove of ill gotten products allowed SAP "to offer cut rate support services to customers who use Oracle software, and to attempt to lure them to SAP's applications software," Oracle said.
Forgive us for thinking the only difference between software makers and Mafiosi is that most Mafiosi don't write code.