Mercury, Willamette Week in Spat over Advertising
By AAN Staff
january 2, 2002 10:20 am
In a complaint filed with the Oregon Attorney General, Portland Mercury Publisher Rob Crocker claims a Willamette Week ad rep offered one of his advertisers a special rate contingent on stopping advertising in the Mercury, the Portland Tribune reports. WW Publisher Richard Meeker tells Tribune that his
newspaper does not have such policies and that the situation was merely "an isolated incident" and a mistake.