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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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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Posted 5:28 PM by Gene

Look at this chart. The last World Series to score the magical 30 rating was in 1981. That was the year of the disastrous mid-season strike, which took a solid chunk of fans out of the game. The Great Migration to cable soon followed, and it hasn't revived since; the last decent numbers -- and the last decent Series -- came in '91, and thanks to TED. And for all of Selig's idiotic talk the decline has grown steeper. Pundits are much anticipating that this year's Seligism festival will score all-time-low ratings. We would not bet on that, but this chart gives a classic look at what happens to a sports league when it decides it can do without most of its fans.

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