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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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Thursday, July 31, 2003

Posted 1:27 PM by Gene

May Department Stores is shuttering 32 Lord & Taylor stores (presumably all in malls) while spiffying up the "flagships" in Manhattan and Philadelphia. Interesting note: "[T]he stores that are closing made up 38 percent of the chain's locations, they only brought in 19 percent of the revenue [emphasis added]."

The big retail chains, anxious to escape the wrong races, ran bansheeing out of the cities, building millions more stores in Mallopia than anyone needed. Now the retailers are paying the price. But for prejudice shoppers could have been better served -- in suburbs and in cities.

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