Newspapers lies about their circulation big time.
They dump newspapers in hotels, airports, any public place for free and call it “circulation”.
If they get really desperate they dump the newspapers in dumpsters and call it “circulation”.
If you want to “strike back” contact their advertisers, claim the newspaper is lying about circulation, and demand that they do a telephone poll or other independent measure and not trust any other source to estimate real circulation.
That will get these newspapers biting the dust even quicker than their current trajectory to oblivion.
P.S. Don’t forget to remind the advertiser to sue the dirtbag newspaper to recover previously fraudulently obtained ad money.
#39 Facebook was caught lying about viewers of videos for 2 years.
https://medium.com/@hankgreen/theft-lies-and-facebook-video-656b0ffed369#.aiv7gtrjs
Advertisers are not happy. They should sue for their money back.