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Who needs plaudits from tired old hacks like us anyway?
According to Auerbach, he has described Murdoch's company as full of "tired, old hacks".
Sadly, it doesn't amount to much more than another novel about a bunch of pissed old hacks.
Some old hacks have seen it all before, and cannot convey with freshness the events they witness.
For many, even those who went on to cover more wars (five, in my case), Vietnam will always be memory's Main Event, with an inexplicable magnetism that keeps an aging fraternity of "old hacks" in regular contact to this day.
But the interesting thing is that the two prime voices belong to career journalists; and not just any old hacks, but former presidents of the Oxford Union to boot.
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In Tom Stoppard's play, Night and Day, Guthrie, the old hack, questions whether any story is worth dying for.
That cynical old hack Maguire would mutter that my novel is getting this coverage because I'm Mr EL James.
It's hard to think that an old hack wouldn't know that people who blame the coverage tend not to have liked the events that precipitated it.
"I am just a washed-up old hack [he was a music journalist] and there is no part of me that thinks I am taking on radio.
Thompson wrote of Humphrey: "There is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly dishonest old hack Hubert Humphrey is until you've followed him around for a while".
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