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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Monday, November 01, 2004
Posted
5:07 PM
by Gene
The Audit Bureau of Circulations released its FAS-FAX report for the six-month period ending September 2004, this afternoon, revealing another decline in overall circulaton for daily newspapers and some steep drops among the largest dailies.
The Top 20 suffering the steepest declines in weekday circ, more than 3%, are the San Francisco Chronicle (-6.09%), The Buffalo News and the Los Angeles Times (both -5.55%), The Arizona Republic (-4.40%), The San Diego Union-Tribune (-3.74), the San Jose Mercury News (-3.28%), The Washington Post (-3.04%), The Plain Dealer in Cleveland (-3.01%), and The Sun in Baltimore (-2.43%).
In addition, the Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, and The Dallas Morning News did not report circulation, as they are under censure by ABC.
Big gainers in weekday circ include: the New York Post (+5.18%), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (+3.84%), USA Today, (+2.80%), The Tampa Tribune (+1.9%), and the Orlando Sentinel (+1.78).
On Sunday, the biggest losers in sales (in order of losses) were: the Los Angeles Times, The Buffalo News, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Arizona Republic.
The biggest gainers on Sundays were New York Post and The Tampa Tribune. In fact, they were the only two Top 20 papers that gained more than 1% on Sunday.
Earlier today the Newspaper Association of America reported that overall daily circulation for the industry, as reflected in the new FAS-FAX, was down .9%, and Sunday circulation declined 1.5%.
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