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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Those fake-proscenium lighting contraptions at rock concerts scare me; they look as though they're held up with baling wire. Amazing they haven't killed more people. Why would you let a concert go on in a gusty storm in any case?
P. S. on 8/14/2011 at 12:14 p. m. Looking at the horrifying video here the people directly underneath never stood a chance. Plainly there was negligence here -- from the Indiana State Fair, the concert organizers, and whoever built a contraption that could not withstand gale-force winds.
For what it's worth this wasn't the first disaster at the site. This was far worse.
P. P. S. at 2:13 p. m. Two similar accidents have already happened this summer, both involving high winds. Thankfully there were no fatalities.