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Homeless paper: Herald wrong about the Stomper

By adamg on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 8:55am

Spare Change News, the newspaper by and for homeless people, says the Herald erred in making a connection between "the Stomper" (the allegedly violent homeless guy with a predeliction for stomping other homeless people) and the recent death of a homeless man in Downtown Crossing. Mark reposts Spare Change News's article (and gets a comment from a Herald editor dismissing the Spare Change News report):

HERALD SPREADS FALSE PANIC AMONG HOMELESS PEOPLE
Dennis Connolly didn't kill Steven Neiber, witnesses tell SCN ...

Earlier: The two-newspaper town

My standard newspaper disclosure.

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By carpundit on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 10:41am.

First, they're reduced to giving the paper away to compete with the Metro, itself best described as an advertising circular.

Now they're out-reported by the free homeless weekly Spare Change.

I express my sympathies to the many good newspaper people working at the Boston Herald - it's not their fault.

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By eeka on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 10:56am.

Spare Change News costs a dollar. Vendors buy it for 25 cents and sell it for a dollar. Selling for more or less than a dollar violates the vending policy.

http://1smootshort.blogspot.com

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By carpundit on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 11:13am.

Spare Change costs a dollar (which is why I never, ever, ever buy it).
I mean the Herald is free.

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