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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Why are fewer men going to college? [George Leef]
Glenn Harlan Reynolds explores that question in this piece on [SIC] TCSDaily.
Reynolds suggests that the answer may be "that men aren't so much underrepresented in college as women are overrepresented. This is plausible. There probably are too many people going to college in general, and it may be that men — more likely to choose, or at least consider, high-paying but unfeminine alternatives like plumbing, or other, more 'masculine' alternatives like military service — are less likely to wind up in college as an unthinking extension of high school."
I particularly like the phrase "an unthinking extension of high school."
Last year, I suggested pretty much the same thing here.
That's another way of saying you don't need a college diploma to be an Instapundit.
Out of curiosity I also checked the Alexa ranking (for what that's worth) of B. S. DEFENDER. Within the last few months it's fallen below 100,000. He writes about nothing but Web 2.0 anymore. No one wants to read such guff. NUF SAID.