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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Where did that factoid come from, JonBoy? If you're going to be THE NEW ICONOCLASTIC ECONOWIZ! and run such contentious assumptions you should footnote them, or link to a source. But JonBoy probably has no more of an idea what the Internet is than SLIME, except that someone's taking his audience away.
Well, I can link to two factoids with more heft: ZEITGEIST's circ will have been cut in half over two years, and KAPLAN, INC.'s share price has DECLINED BY 57% IN FIVE YEARS.
P. S. The factoid seems to have come from an HHS survey -- and which our intrepid hacks probably got here, from a NORML representative, who says the survey is "highly questionable" but it's accurate enough for us, typical guff from a lobbying group at 1600 K STREET NW.