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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The following recall has been announced:
-About 13,800 Coby-brand USB/MP3/CD boomboxes because they could start a fire if the off switch is not firmly in position while the unit is plugged into an electrical outlet. The company has received 18 reports of boxes overheating and causing minor property damage. Details: by phone at 800-524-9219; by Web at http://www.cobyusa.com/ or http://www.cpsc.gov . [sic]
Nothing against Coby or the purchasers, but part of us has wanted to see a few boomboxes self-destruct -- and now a manufacturer has rather obliged.