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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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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Posted 1:52 PM by Gene

Today walking past 19th and Chestnut I noticed another Starbucks about to come in where an independent eatery was, and I thought, who can explain its good rep? Why do I think this twee Mickey Ds, for all its cleverly manufactured aura as a "quirky" peace-and-love place, is every bit as ruthless as Wal-Mart? How many thousands of small businesses has it deep-sixed? The tragedy of Whole Foods (pffh-hh-hh) gives us hope. People can't go on overpaying forever. When will somebody wake up and smell the odor of Starbucks?

Noting those heady days of double-digit same-store sales growth, analyst Mark Husson of HSBC Securities said the "party is over for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever, as competition is reeling Whole Foods in."

Husson said its fresh food items are good, but "not that much better than, say, Safeway's."

When?

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