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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A little more than three-quarters of all scholarship athletes arriving from high school or transferring from other colleges from 1995-98 got their degrees within six years, according to the findings released by the NCAA on Monday.
BUT:
Not all the numbers were positive. Fourteen of the 25 teams in this week's USA TODAY men's basketball coaches' poll had NCAA rates beneath the sport's 58% average. No. 1 Duke's was 50%, as was No. 2 Connecticut's.
Six of the eight football teams preparing for Bowl Championship Series games had rates beneath the sport's 64% benchmark. No. 2 Texas tied for the sixth-lowest in Division I-A at 40%. No. 1 Southern California's was 55%.
TRANSLATION: The NPCPCAA STILL "GRADUATES" DUMMIES -- WHERE IT COUNTS.