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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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Friday, October 31, 2008

Posted 6:02 PM by Gene

As phair-weather Phillies phans head home to nurse their seventh beer, let us compare Budball's 2008 numbers with 1980's. Average ratings points: down 75 percent. Average total audience: down over 68 percent. Percent of total U. S. population watching in 1980: 18.66 percent. The number for 2008: 4.32 percent.* There is no way around these stats -- thanks to too many reasons to count, Budball has become a game with no hits and untold errors.

*These last two numbers are dubious, to be sure, but add a multiplier effect of people talking baseball and clearly Americans cared for the game far more in 1980 than now.

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