Crosscut Seattle | Post-Intelligencer
Former Seattle Times Co. vice president
Stephen Sparks claims in a deposition that Times officials in the mid-1990s secretly violated their joint operating agreement with Hearst, using unfairly lopsided circulation spending to keep the Seattle Times' circulation lead over Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. He also says Times executives then tricked Hearst into giving up their paper's exclusivity in the morning. The Seattle Times Co. denies Sparks' allegations, pointing out that the U.S. Justice Department took no action after it learned of his claims. ||
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