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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The good news:
The four-game series averaged 17.1 million total viewers, 8 percent better than last year’s all-time low 15.8 million, and a 10.6 household rating and 18 share, 5 percent better than last year’s St. Louis Cardinals-Detroit Tigers matchup.
That’s nowhere near the 15.8 household rating that Boston’s 2004 victory over the Cardinals averaged, and in fact it ranks second-worst among all Series since Nielsen began measurements in 1968.
More good news: SLIME will have to dish out millions in "makegoods." But we wouldn't have SELIGISM without all those CEOs saying, "I WAS AT THE WORLD SERIES AND YOU WEREN'T!!!!!"