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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U. S. PRISON POPULATION SOARS IN 2003, '04!!!!!
CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGE gives the increase at 2.3%. To be sure having over seven percent of our population incarcerated should not exactly be a source of national pride, but 2.3% (48,000, or 960 a state) may not exactly be soaring either, which hints at the usual NEWS HACK chicanery behind the news. (Hint: it may have to do with SKIN COLOR.) The NYSE could use this hed writer to SWEETEN the BID.
This is the sort of story better told with several good charts, but that would make the numbers clear, which GOD KNOWS news hacks would never want to do.