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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Newspaper circulation reached 4.8 million last month, down 4.1 percent from the year before.
AT McCLATCHY:
Circulation revenue, meanwhile, was down 2.9 percent in July compared to July 2004, reflecting a 2.2 percent drop in paid daily circulation and a 4.1 percent drop in paid Sunday circulation.
AT THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE:
In the most recent Audit Bureau of Circulations FAS-FAX, the paper reported a daily circulation of 537,744 for the six months ended March 31, down 3.9% from the same period in 2004, and a Sunday circulation of 720,711, down 2.6% from last year.
IN DENVER:
Denver's two daily newspapers are bulking up declining paid circulation by aggressive use of auditing rules that let them count readers who pay less than half-price for the papers -- or sometimes nothing at all.
It's being done, advertising and newspaper industry experts say, to justify advertising rates that show no signs of coming down -- despite a 36 percent drop in the combined daily circulation of The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News since the two papers combined business operations in 2001.
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