Slate pokes around the newspaper circulation number inflation scandal and comes up with some very disturbing news: Newsday is literally forcing itself upon innocent civilians, both alive and dead. Horrific, indeed!

One unnamed former circulation worker alleges that home delivery would be started for people who hadn't requested the paper — sometimes 1,000 or more at a time. When recipients called customer service to demand a stop of delivery, the calls would be ignored. "We even delivered to addresses where the house had been burned down," one former employee — unnamed — tells Newsday. Death offered no refuge from the Newsday circulation, either. Copies would continue to arrive at the deceased subscriber's last earthly address long after he died.

Fascinating: clearly Newsday is the necrophiliac newspaper of choice.
Ghost Readers [Slate]