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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Costs for a massive cell-phone battery recall helped depress profit for the second fiscal quarter 17 percent at Matsushita....
Last month, a fire broke out in a Matsushita plant in Osaka that makes lithium-ion batteries. The company is investigating the cause of the fire. Repairing the plant will cost 2 billion yen ($17.4 million), and the plant will resume part of its operations Nov. 1, Matsushita said.
Matsushita also recently replaced faulty parts in driers, massage chairs, microwaves, refrigerators and other products, adding to such extra expenses, it said.
With that kind of "quality control" how can such a company stay in business without pushing products mindlessly out the door -- the way OURS did?