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 one advantage is it's gouging its shareholders too!
PHILADELPHIA -- THE MEDIA CAPITOL OF THE WORLD! PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
Under the scenario being contemplated, Comcast would not issue equity or endanger its investment-grade credit rating.
BRIAN ROBBER says Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!!
P. S.
In contrast, Comcast's cable TV distribution systems have a solid future -- the Internet-access side is only going to increase in value. Comcast would be better off buying more cable companies than buying content.
1. What's to prevent us from getting our Internet from someone else? 2. Our local StinkyInky once likened CONCAST to the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baldwin Locomotive Works -- and its TAXPAYER-PAID HQ stand across the street from the site of the old CHINESE WALL. NUF SAID.
(Via Henry Honest)