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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Middle school students who watch TV or play video games during the week do worse in school than those who don't, a new study finds, but weekend viewing and gaming doesn't affect school performance much....
Children whose parents allowed them to watch R-rated movies also did worse in class, and for boys, that effect was especially strong.... [UNDER 17 NOT ADMITTED WITHOUT PARENT OR ADULT GUARDIAN. Thanks AGAIN, DR. EVIL!]
"This study should hammer home to parents that this is really serious," Gentile said. "One question all parents are going to be faced with [from their children] is, 'Can I have a TV in my bedroom?' There's a simple two-letter answer for that."
The answer is YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Via ArtsJournal, which came up with an interesting hed: "TV, VIDEO GAMES NOT GOOD FOR KIDS AFTER ALL." By the way, The Worse It Gets, the Better It Is: Why Show-Biz is Good for You is 10,897 on Amazon.com, meaning not even B. S. DEFENDER's friends are buying it.)