[weegee]

Actually investigations HAVE begun into some of the different newspapers' fraud (I seem to recall articles about the LA Times and know that the Houston Comical has been caught at it).

Don't expect the mainstream media to cover this scandal the way they covered Enron.

[Grampa Dave]

The Chicago Tribune which owns the LA Slimes is up to its neck re inflated subscribers and news stand stories.

One of the NYC newspapers was found guilty of this and had to make refunds to it advertisers. The advertisers paid rates based on the lies about circulation.

The NY Slimes is being investigated on this now.

I have a neighbor who makes me look moderate and he has been getting the NY Slimes dropped off in his driveway for years. One day I challenged him about it. His youngest is a soph in the local college, and he has had at least one of three children in college for a decade. They have been required to subscribe to the NY Slimes at a highly discounted rate as a requirement for some of their classes.

This fellow believes that if the college student subscribers are ever audited properly, the NY Slimes will be in real trouble. He says that this a normal practice in liberal colleges/universities across the nation to require a subscription to the NY Slimes for certain classes.