City council will pay ($100,000) for good news in Newark

[Newsjock]

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-1/113012948759130.xml&coll=1

BY JEFFERY C. MAYS
Star-Ledger Staff

In politics, they say no news is good news.

In public relations, they say good news is something money can't buy.

But Newark Mayor Sharpe James and the city council have found a way to buy good news.

The council has hired a fledgling newspaper called Newark Weekly News to publish "positive news" about the city -- and will pay $100,000 over the next year for it.

Newark Weekly News owner Howard Scott said he's doing nothing more than providing a service, the same way large newspapers are paid to print the legal advertisements that municipalities are required by law to publish.

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[tk2kewl]

1. i hope they get shit for this

i think i should start a paper and call it "Bad Shit that Happens in Newark"

I guarantee i'll sell more papers than the government sponsored propaganda pages

[brentspeak]

2. Newark won't have a chance of improving

until Sharpe James is voted out of office. There are a ton of better Democrats available for that city.

[Tight_rope]

3. Good Luck Mayor Sharpe James!

:rofl: