Two Long Island Weeklies Get Mysterious Cash Infusion From (Probably) Haters

Folks at The Suffolk Times and The Riverhead News-Review on Long Island are scratching their heads over the total selling out of last week’s edition.

The papers originally printed a combined 8,620 copies, the New York Times says, and had to print another 5,500 copies to keep up with demand after every copy of the paper vanished from newsstands.

Is journalism saved, or at least on the community weekly level? Sadly, no: At least 4,000 of those sales were due to four people buying every single copy a store had, at $1.50