The Passive Consumer
I told the hawker that Rose was taking a beating. “They’re closing [the station] in September anyway,” he said.
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The drivers who bring Rose’s papers to her each morning have told her other stations are also being hurt. “We’re way down,” says Jay Gandhi, who owns the kiosk at the Fullerton el. He used to get 250 copies of the Sun-Times and 350 copies of the Tribune each morning and sell nearly all of them. Now a RedEye hawker and free RedEye boxes stand a few steps away, and he says his draw had to be reduced to about 45 copies of the Sun-Times and 40 copies of the Tribune.
Far be it from anyone at the Reader to object on principle to newspapers being given away for free. But I hoped John O’Loughlin, general manager of RedEye, would comment on the collateral damage done by his paper’s campaign. My call was routed to Tribune spokesman Patty Wetli, and she didn’t. “There are some locations where we’ve been sampling papers in the afternoons and have switched to mornings,” Wetli said. “It’s part of a sort of holistic look at our distribution and where it makes the most sense to have samplers in the best way to get the most copies in the hands of the most readers.”
Found Guilty by the Tribune
Knight says he didn’t tell Gorajczyk that and neither Gorajczyk nor anybody else ever told the grand jury that he did. In fact Gorajczyk didn’t even appear before the grand jury. Knight will present this, which Possley described when Knight deposed him as a “mistake in editing,” to the jury as evidence of–to quote from one of his briefs–“a pattern of falsity that uniformly paints a sinister and corrupt picture of the prosecutorial conduct of the Plaintiff.”
A consensus has yet to form . . .
