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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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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Posted 6:52 AM by Gene

Having cried over their comrades the movie ad-blurbists, the hacks turn their handkerchiefs to the folks who write the squibs for the back covers. While we feel slightly different for such people -- after all, movies these days aren't merely sub-literate, they're anti-literate -- the difference is microscopic indeed; much of what book reviewers do isn't reviewing, it's logrolling, and when they aren't logrolling they're largely synopsizing, and they do both with a willowy wispiness that avoids judgment. When was the last time you read a memorable book review? Perhaps the problem is so few memorable books; but surely there's a way of eviscerating even the slightest piece of hack work, and most book reviewers aren't the slightest writers.

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