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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Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a MINORITY, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times. [PINCHIAN overemphasis added]
Without picking apart PINCH's use of the word (doesn't minority mean we get special privileges in PINCHDOM? With married couples, no) here's how the dictionary defines it: "The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole." As we're also talking singles and unmarried couples the married are still a PLURALITY. Now we don't want to get into dueling spins, but dammit, as EM demonstrates with his egregious use of "Democrat" as an ADJECTIVE, as USAOKAY!!!!! demonstrated by using "actor" for "actress", as the WaPost demonstrated by using "disinterested" for "uninterested," and as thousands in Iraq demonstrate by getting themselves blown up by a mysterious, anonymous force that always materializes in the passive voice (sorry for the NRO), the hacks do NOT like clear, accurate writing, for obfuscation and irritation help them get their way.
And NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, which no longer seems to do any original reporting (except in a narrow and risible sense), swallowed PINCH's "MINORITY" line whole.