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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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Friday, June 10, 2005

Posted 11:31 AM by Gene

I don't know what to make of the NEW! IMPROVED!! Nielsens. On the one hand it's bad news if more people are taking TV painkiller in ever larger doses, especially as that means THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS can REALLY ramp up the spending on BAD TV. On the other hand, why is Frisco's TV consumption up over 31 percent, but LALA's up only 7.5? My guess is there's a lot of statistical fantasy to these numbers, just as with public opinion polls and anything else that tries to make a literal out of a figurative.

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