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how does one become a "crack Pitch" editor

Justin, what part of business and promotions do you not understand? For god's sake, you work at a paper yourself and surely you comprehend the basics of advertising revenue. Maybe not. Newspapers have run contests for the entire history of their existence, you numbnuts. The Journal-Post gave away a whole house with a long-running contest, in the heyday of printed papers. By the way, Angela Curry retired, as you were too lazy to read her last column.

How is this different than strip club and Hurts Rent-a-Bimbo ads? Well, someone will walk away with $25k thanks to the Star.

Without the Star, the Pitch would lose its ability to pat itself on the back. So, were I the Pitch, I'd pray every night for the Star's success.

Now, about those local movie reviews...

Dude: Your first three lines sounded like they were ripped out of Mark Zieman's Sunday column.

Baxter: You're right about Angela Curry. I missed the note at the end of her last column. But you missed the point of the post, which Trevor nailed. Do you really believe this promotion will save the paper or add any readers?

Trevor: It's like there's a psychic link between us.

Keith: I do pray the Star survives. The city is better served with a strong newspaper.

Keith G, you want to know the difference? Strip clubs MAKE money and can thus give it away. When was the last time you saw strippers being laid off?

The death of the watchdog media, or rather its emergence into a Democratic mouth piece is a shame. A shame only surpassed by the erosion of reporting to some sort of Google-blog-incestuous mass where unique thought is shelved for sensationalist regurgitation and anonymous sources. Profiteering was deemed much cheaper than training a generation of watchdogs…especially when those watchdogs might one day look inwards at their creator. Unfortunately, the plan does not appear to be sustainable and The Star is a perfect example.