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 ABSURDITY OF THE WALL STREET CASINO: Here TiVo's chugging along for months, doing mostly nothing, then all of a sudden it goes WAY UP. Then it chugs along at its new elevated price and all of a sudden it goes WAY DOWN. Here in the proverbial nutshell is why WALL STREET can start PANICS, and why a few computers and brainiacs have the power to bring down economies.
P. S. at 10:35 p. m. It went up and then down thanks to two rulings in a patent-infringement suit against DirecTV. It still looks ludicrous.