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This screed against TV journalism is dismissed as hackneyed, heavy-handed, and hypocritical.
The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.
The right-wing polemicist's biography is accused of idolizing the Gipper and lacking "intellectual honesty" (Claude Marx, the Washington Post Book World ). In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Berke says the book retells hackneyed anecdotes and is not "particularly revealing about what drove him."
Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
Director James Cameron contributes a short defense of his movie, but an accompanying review pans it: great special effects, hackneyed story.