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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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Posted 4:59 PM by Gene

As I've said redundantly before, most news writing is the literary equivalent of self-abuse. Too often, for instance, do the hacks justify their idle favorites under the pretense of significance. So you like some "classic" "speculative-fiction" hack. So what? He's a reason our movies stink. And no, I do not take a dying magazine's list seriously, nor the Library of America opus; its output may slowly be turning into the bookstores' version of the Kennedy Center HHonors. (And that's the "best seller" among the holy Philip K. Dick's titles at #2,312 on Amazon.com, suggesting even the people may not be so gullible.) When the hacks do such typing it's little different from running a fan site, only this fan site has millions of hits per week.

I've had enough of these scribblers writing for themselves. When will one of them write for me?

P. S. I'd hoped for succor from Amazon.com's "classics" ranks but five of the top ones are Ayn Rand novels, and a sixth is a Cliff's Notes thereupon, meaning "speculative-fiction" buffs aren't the only ones full of it.

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