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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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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Posted 5:55 PM by Gene

A TNR writer propsoes a new national weekly book review. It sounds like a good (or at least well-meaning) idea until you start to think of it. With publishers disgorging a mountain of words even the most dedicated of magazines will let some works worthy of publicity languish. And who is to say that the problem is not enough well-written reviews but too many books? Wouldn't even the most discriminating of reviews get swamped? And where precisely will we find writers for it? Edmund Wilsons do not exactly flourish in publishing or academe these days. And who would pay them? Moreover Mr. Herf sems to limit himself to scholarly tomes, desiccating the air considerably. Besides we already have the New York Review of Books, which one correspondent here calls "comically narrow", and the Paper of Re-CORD's Book Review, which can be comically trendy. We've not counted the deluge of "reviews" on Amazon.com. Methinks we have enough scribble about books as it is.

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