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Cleanliness is next to impossible in a newsroom

November 27, 2012 5:43 PM By JERRY ZEZIMA jerryz111@optonline.net

Jerry Zezima

Newsday staffer Jerry Zezima Jerry Zezima

Jerry Zezima, a Newsday assistant editor who writes a nationally

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In my early days as a journalist, when newsrooms looked like landfills and the remains of Jimmy Hoffa could have been safely hidden from prying reporters who had the story right under their noses, my desk was so messy that it should have been condemned by the board of health.

Over the years, however, I have cleaned up my act. Now my desk is so neat that it looks as though I don't do any real...

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