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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Fellow di tutti Fellows Eric Boehlert asks if Rush Limbaugh lied when he said:
Well, he inherited a AAA credit rating, an unemployment rate of 5.7%. Does anybody doubt that this is on purpose?
Boehlert then tweets:
Hey cons, did Limbaugh lie about the unemployment rate again today? http://t.co/2L9XF7C #justchecking #Limbaugh #tcot
This links to a Media Matter For America article that clearly shows the unemployment rate in January 2009, when President Obama took office, was 7.6 percent. Details here.
But, no, Rush didn’t lie. THE FIGURE HE'S USING IS AN AVERAGE FOR 2008.
[Emphasis -- and overemphasis -- added]TRANSLATION: LIAR LIAR BROCK knows how to use statistics to lie; so do his enemies. A PLAGUE O' BOTH YOUR HOUSES!