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Dallas Morning News Gets Scooped on Circulation Fraud Story

By Jim Schutze

Dallas Observer | May 2, 2005

The Dallas daily didn't report that its owner, Belo Corp., had been served a grand jury subpoena as part of a criminal investigation until the Fort Worth Star-Telegram broke the story.

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Tags: circulation fraud, Newsday, Robert Decherd, securities law, subpoena, William Lerach

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You might think that it was one of those thorny ethical conflicts. How would the Dallas Observer behave when its tough-talking former city columnist became mayor? Would we join her team? Be her pals? Suck up? Or would we keep...

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