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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[W]hether the masses are ready to embrace 3-D -- and the glasses required to view the format -- remains to be seen. Football fans attending last month's game between the Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers gave the technology a smackdown.
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, boasts a gigantic high-definition video screen hovering over the field. The plan was to allow ticket holders to watch close-ups and replays in 3-D during the second half with the help of special specs distributed to the crowd of about 80,000.
Except that they hated it. The experiment lasted less than seven minutes after the stadium erupted in boos.
"Not everyone wanted to wear the glasses," said analyst Paul Gagnon of market researcher DisplaySearch. "And if you didn't, the screen was all blurry. It looked terrible."
The Cowboys Stadium debacle showed the challenges facing manufacturers to make the 3-D experience work outside insulated, controlled conditions, like those in a movie theater.
That's okay, our superiors will figure out a way -- just as they figured out a way to dominate the Internet.