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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Reviving theaters is a central tenet of the RENDELLIST notion that the AHTS can restore a city economy, when it has proved all too obvious that no zillions in convention center/stadium/arts center building can help; and old theaters were located in downtowns because downtowns were once vital, and because entertainment was vital too -- and neither theaters nor entertainment are vital anymore, whatever table pounders like SUPERNIKKI!!!!! belch. That said, it is heartening that an urban palace like the Oakland Fox has survived long enough to be fully renovated, and even if it spends much of its time emceeing dust particles, at least it's there.