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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[ESPNCORP] also said that its "reach" number, or the number of viewers that tuned in for at least six minutes of the Oscars, was 70 million. That compares with last year's 68 million.
This is embarrassing -- Nielsen whispers a nice numerical fairy tale in ESPNCORP's ear and it STILL has to make up stats -- and the made-up stats aren't that impressive! Hmmm.
[T]he Oscars didn't get the kind of numbers they usually get when an immensely popular film is in the mix.
Maybe because the numbers aren't showing up at the popcorn restaurants anymore.
And of course double-counting NEVER hurts!