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October 26, 2005

To Publicize Its Good News, Newark Makes Deal With a Newspaper

The NY Times
by Jeffrey Gettleman

Why print your own paper like Brooklyn Standard Second Edition (BS 2.0) when you can just pay the media to print your stories:

Mayor Sharpe James and the City Council of Newark have devised a new way to get their message across: paying a weekly paper $100,000 to print "good news" about themselves and their city.

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Posted by lumi at October 26, 2005 8:18 AM