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Here is the second part of comments from former Breaking News Editor Jerry DeMarco on what may be behind The Record's so-called investigations:

Might it be a onetime-ally-turned-foe, one whose rep has never been smudged by the RSR's newsprint? (Oh, wait; they're on Squirrelwood Road now.) Might this person have found the right tool to carry out vendettas vs. these men? (Bonus points if you can figure out the agitator & the editor who got played.)

Yes, Vicster, if you want to lay it, you just might find a pattern -- an agenda, if you will -- the kind of thing that, in other quarters, leads to whispers of conspiracy.

Sure, I could ask: What does it that a single 52yo pro can beat you not only to the biggest story of 2010, if not the past several years?

Ask ANY reporter who ever worked for me -- there were plenty -- and they'll tell you I had a single hard/fast rule: Don't get beat in our backyard....I guess the Woodland Park chief would have to be arrested for that to be considered here.

But there's a much more important distinction, & you've finally begun to expose it, Mr. Sasson: That is, exactly who is serving whom here?

"Friend of the people it serves"? More like "Friend of the a-hole buddy" who, in the end, still got the preferred heads on a platter -- except for Mordaga's -- thanks to honest, hard-working, patient, fair & deliberate law enforcers.

Maybe that's why they changed the slogan.

I say change it again: "If it's news, it's news to us."

I'm goin' away for awhile, my friend. Gonna put some genuine energy into the site. Maybe I'll continue to have weeks like this, & I won't end up with Sunday stories about volcanic ash or other developments my readers consider important.

While I'm gone: Give 'em hell, brother....