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, October 12, 2005
Posted
8:16 AM
by Gene
Newsprint comes from mills located mainly in Canada and the South. It seems counterintuitive that newsprint prices would rise as average national newspaper circulation has fallen over the past 18 years, but consolidation in the newsprint industry has led large manufacturers, such as South Carolina's Bowater Inc., to reduce newsprint manufacturing capacity, switching some plants from producing less-profitable newsprint to higher-profit, higher-grade paper. Therefore, though papers are using less newsprint, there is also less newsprint being manufactured, said newspaper industry analyst John Morton.
"The era of cheap newsprint for the newspaper business is over," Morton said. "And we can count on fairly regular price increases. At $625 per ton, [manufacturers] are just edging on profitability."
Where are the Larry Kudlows to gloat at how THE MARKETPLACE WORKS? These clowns forget business is ALWAYS a win-lose proposition.
