December 11, 2002

Washington City Paper
U.S. News & World Report has had a year of pink-slips and paycuts, and now remaining staffers have to deal with fewer snack offerings. Two of the magazine’s three vending machines have been hauled away due to slow sales, reports Erik Wemple. “Employees attribute the slack in snack sales to the gradual attrition at the magazine,” he writes. “Snack traffic has to get mighty slow before a vending firm actually pulls its machines from a location.” PLUS: The scoop on the Washington Post’s 350-word correction, which, says Wemple, “impugned basically the entire story.”

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