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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Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Posted
4:55 PM
by Gene
The number of Canadians who say they have smoked pot in the past year has nearly doubled in a decade, a major new study on addiction says.
More than 44 per cent of Canadians say they have used marijuana at least once in their lifetime, a figure that spiked to 70 per cent among 18 to 24-year-olds, the Canadian Addiction Survey says.
And more than 14 per cent of all of the survey's respondents reported using the drug in the past year — up from 7.4 per cent in 1994.
But there is good news:
The prevalence of pot use increased with education and income, according to the survey.
So our friends to the north are at least getting stoned on purpose. EH?
