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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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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Posted 5:12 PM by Gene

If sports scandals have no effect on attendance, it is because the increasingly upper-class masses who attend the games wear them as they would Tiffany diamonds. And who is to say they have no effect? TV ratings for every big sport save football have gone substantially down in the last decade. Perhaps the scandals have had nothing to do with it; but who can say that they don't count with everything else that's gone bad in sport? The moral slobs who prop their feet up on the well-appointed furnishings in their luxury boxes may not care -- after all, a few of their numbers finance the games and their snobbery with OUR money -- but those lower down the scale, who can only afford sports through television, may think otherwise.

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