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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We would say when it comes to browsers the Web may have largely made up its mind. Firefox got to twenty percent because people had it with Bugmeister's bugs -- and it's been a long haul to get to twenty percent -- and Firefox is now only incrementally better. It was also very much the underdog. Why people would want to go to a menace just as big as MSFT for a browser is beyond us. It would have to be very, very good -- and, face it, the Dalai Lamas of Mountain View just hit upon a very, very good idea a decade ago, and drove it to Mars, just as the Bugmeister drove His bad ideas to control of 27 universes. And we wonder if the Goog may be coasting.
P. S. We just thought up another reason this may not work.