Eugene David
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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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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Posted 1:05 PM by Gene

It wasn't just the title. We submit book reviews have a higher burden of proof for all their logrolling. A front-page review in the Paper of Re-CORD's insert is apt to look like an ad as anything, which may explain its diminished power. We wonder too if people want to read a novel about the office when they already live there. And God knows how many reviewers have called how many "comic" novels HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!! when their humor is at best gentle, as apparently here. That said a better title would have helped; THEN...WE...CAME...TO...THE...END sounds almost willfully clueless. Office Hours sounds old fashioned, and there's a bad low-grade inside-reference joke to it, but it might have helped.

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