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...publisher Richard Missner fired editor Harper Barnes; the staff formed the Phoenix Employees Union to protest that action and to obtain other demands, including the formation of a community-based executive board and threatened to strike...
...Missner apparently didn't like the idea of a strike, and retired Barnes Barnes and a small group subsequently raided the Phoenix composing room and stole the pages for the forthcoming edition, hoping to obtain the remainder of the union's demands. But Missner apparently didn't like that idea either; he fired Barnes once again, suspended the comptroller and demoted the associate publisher...
...Real Paper, the Phoenix's former publisher Richard Missner and BAD have been exchanging charges and suits all week. On Friday the Phoenix staff won a temporary restraining order blocking Missner from spending the proceeds from the sale of the paper. On August 7 they will attempt to convert the temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction...
Trash-Can War. To get out of the red, Missner employed hundreds of hungry young hawkers in blue jeans and headbands who swarmed over Boston and Cambridge every Monday morning, making 20? on every 25? copy sold. Boston After Dark soon felt the impact of this sales army and began to press upon each willing Phoenix hawker 50 free copies of BAD, also to be sold at 25? apiece. Phoenix retaliated by offering the hawkers one, then two free copies of Phoenix for every copy of BAD they tossed in the trash can. Eventually, the hawker war was ended...
...Competition Myth. The better of the two papers is the Phoenix. As Publisher Missner sees it, most newspapers are merely '"reactive," reporting news when institutions release it. The function of a weekly, he says, is "to find out and explain how local institutions work, and what the people who run them are like. And that can involve anything from how to buy meat at Haymarket to explanations about how government surveillance operates." In three recent issues, Phoenix published a long, comprehensive report on real estate profiteering and the resulting urban problems in Cambridge. As Phoenix sees it, the villains...