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| | The Stranger - News - City - Seattle Weekly Up for Sale |
 | | The Weekly chose Stern Publishing, when it went up for sale just two and a half years ago, over other buyers in part because the company said it believed in the paper's autonomy and supported the Weekly's offshoot publication, Eastside Week. |
 | | Not long after the purchase, however, Stern closed Eastside Week (the idea was to increase the circulation of Seattle Weekly to 150,000 by the end of '98 by distributing it on the Eastside; according to Verified Audit, the number hovers around 99,000). |
 | | Weekly founder David Brewster, who left the paper after selling it to Stern, says, "The sense is the decision is being made in New York, and [Stern will] tell you who your next boss is." |
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