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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Microsoft, Blockbuster, Dell computers, Apple computers, the DVD, the VCR, the iPod, cell phones, Martha Stewart Living, Fox News, Amazon.com, talk radio, Harpo productions (Oprah Winfrey's empire of TV: films, books and a magazine) and DreamWorks studios (Steven Spielberg).
Every last item on this list is related, directly or indirectly, to SHOW-BIZ. (I'm not sure I'd have listed that perennially near-bankrupt video retailer, LORD.) Not ONE involves manufacturing (unless you call offshoring box-construction manufacturing). Yes he could have included biotech, but how much has that helped the economy? Surely some biotech stalwarts didn't require tax dollars. And he should have listed the Wall Street Casino's new products. It didn't need outside inspiration to invent monkey wrenches. The fact is GREENSPAN'S MONEY-MAKING MACHINE BLEW UP in con-SER-va-tives' faces -- and they're still in denial.
And yes, a New New Deal may not help. But NEITHER WILL RONALD REAGAN.