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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There is a warning sign for the GOP in the new poll: 21 percent of those surveyed said they identify as Republicans, the fewest to do so in a Post-ABC poll in more than 25 years. Last fall, Democrats outnumbered Republicans at the polls by the biggest margin in network exit polls going back to the 1982 midterms. (NINETEENTH OF TWENTY GRAFS)
And how do we know there are so few Republicans? Because they tell us. And how do we know they're telling us right? Well, we try to make our samples accurate. And how do we know they're accurate? Well, we ask other pollsters, and other newsmen, and....
Okay, the P. O. P. is still in the doghouse, and deservedly so. But we again submit public opinion polls are basically a reflection of news hack coverage, and they can be slanted to suit the news hacks' slants.
There are also warning signs for KAPLAN, INC.: Its shares are STILL NEARLY SIXTY PERCENT FROM THEIR ALL-TIME HIGHS, ITS PUTATIVE FLAGSHIP PAPER IS "LOSING 'SUBSTANTIAL MONEY'", and ITS MEDIA UNIT IS STILL VIRTUALLY WORTHLESS.