A plot thickens
Stephen Dark wrote a cover story for the Salt Lake City Weekly that comes close to the long-sought unified-field theory of journalism. It's got nasty cops of questionable integrity, vengeful ex-girlfriends, airline pilots, cute kids, snarling in-laws, and even a kidnapped puppy. Oh yeah, and a bouquet of civic corruption. (The story only falls short on whores, courageous cancer patients, drug dealers and premy babies.)
The staff at City Weekly thinks the story was so good that it resulted in hundreds of their newspapers disappearing from routes in Taylorsville and other western 'burbs — which happens to be where the alleged cops of questionable integrity patrol.
Editor Holly Mullen surmises:
The staff at City Weekly thinks the story was so good that it resulted in hundreds of their newspapers disappearing from routes in Taylorsville and other western 'burbs — which happens to be where the alleged cops of questionable integrity patrol.
Editor Holly Mullen surmises:
Circulation manager Larry Carter says the entire inventory of newspapers disappeared overnight from boxes from 1300 West to 4000 West along the busy artery of 3500 South. Boxes in key locations in Kearns and along 5400 South in the heart of the Taylorsville business district have been emptied, as well.Could it have been, oh I dunno, maybe someone incensed over Stephen Dark's cover story, "Taylorsville 911!?" Just because Dark delved into a case that started with the theft of a Boston terrier, then drew Taylorsville police ire because one of the players in the drama is a fellow cop (on the Midvale force) and is now headed to U.S. District Court alleging civil rights violations--well, is that any reason to go (again, allegedly) stealing more than 1,000 copies of City Weekly?
4 Comments:
Interesting. I'd say I'm sorry for the City Weekly, but it won't hurt them in the pocket book, since they are a free publication.
I am sorry that folks didn't get to read the story, though, which is pretty good.
Actually, it will hurt their pocketbook. That's 1,000 papers that no one got to read, see the ads, spend money with those advertisers as a result, etc.
Also, the bigger issue is whether anyone has the right to exercise a form of prior restraint on the rest of us, simply because they dislike a paper's content.
Well now hold on. This happenned with the City Weekly a few years ago when an elected official grabbed up armloads of papers with a critical story and dumpstered them. It seems like he was criticized and scrutinized over it far more than the boys in blue.
2nd Anon-
It doesn't hurt their pocketbook. Ad revenues come from distribution numbers, and the advertisers will not get a discount rate for having 700 stolen.
Advertisers hurt? Yes. City Weekly hurt? Probably not.
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