Hundreds of Salt Lake City Weekly Copies Disappear
By AAN Staff
may 28, 2008 09:13 am
As many as 1,000 copies of last week's paper were removed from street boxes after
an unflattering cover story involving local police officers was published, the
Salt Lake Tribune reports. "I do believe they were stolen and, yes, I suspect someone close to the story is behind it,"
Weekly executive editor John Saltas says. The
Tribune notes that this type of thing has happened before: "The alleged theft is reminiscent of an incident in 1997 when then-Salt Lake District Attorney Neal Gunnarson threw a stack of
Weekly papers into a trash bin after the paper published an uncomplimentary story about him."