Someone didn’t want people reading about payroll hanky-panky
Last Friday’s edition of The Retrospect, a South Jersey weekly, had a story about a town commissioner and a payroll problem — a piece that someone didn’t want the locals to read.
“We don’t know who did it, but it seems the person bought up as many copies as he or she could and deposited them in the dumpster at the Haddon Township Municipal Building,” writes The Retrospect’s Mark Swanson.
Publisher Brett Ainsworth says trashing the papers “wasn’t effective” because most people subscribe to the paper; newsstands and honor boxes account for only 500 of the 5,500 Retrospects sold weekly.
* Jersey paper gets the news out anyway (Philly.com)
* You can’t hide the news, but someone sure tried to (theretrospect.com)
