Down here in Charlottesville, VA (110 miles south of DC) the local paper and the WASHINGTON COMPOST try this same marketing ploy here too, from time to time.
Nonetheless, I can get a copy of the WASHINGTON TIMES nearly every morning.........I don't know what I'm going to do if I ever have to move from this area.
LOL, funny stuff in this thread...
Lots of papers do this, and have for years. Heck, I delivered free papers when I was a kid over 20 years ago.
I used to deliver the Globe when I was a kid 31 years ago!
Little did I know, I was a propagandist! At 10 years old!