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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Apple is selling some 17 million apps per day, and they may begin to outsell music downloads by the end of this year. Android too is catching up to iTunes' 250,000 apps, boasting about 70,000, and BlackBerry isn't far behind. The app market is huge, right?
Not according to a new study by Nielsen and the Pew Research Center. Only around 35% of adult cell phone owners have apps on their phone (including preloaded apps), and only 24% actually use them. Although apps have generated huge profits for developers, they still rank very low on cell phone users' mobile activities. Texting and taking pictures are now common among adults--more than 70% use these features--but downloading apps still has a long way to go: Just 29% of adult cell-phone owners have downloaded apps, a percentage lower than recording video and playing music.
What's more, adults rarely pay for apps. Of the thousands of adults surveyed, a mere 13% have paid for an app. The majority opt for free apps, if anything, and even of those who are willing to pay, 60% have dropped less than $2.99. Apps also have a low shelf life: more than half of users have deleted apps, and the majority of those who have do so within two weeks.
CAVEAT at 9:20 a. m.: This is from the same Pew Foundation report that says practically ALL 18-to-34-year-olds watch the COMEDY CENTRAL NEWS NETWORK!!!!!
(First link via WOLFFMAN!!!!!; second link via MediaBistro)