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What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales - News - Houston Press - Houston Press

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In the eight months the Press investigated door-to-door magazine sales across the country, the industry has seen at least three murders, one rape, two attempted rapes, one stabbing, one attempted murder, one vehicle fatality and one attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl.

Interviews with former agents reveal a constant party atmosphere where agents have easy access — often thanks to their managers — to drugs. The agents come primarily from two populations: reprobates who need to leave wherever they are fast, and vulnerable kids from unstable families who believe that hopping into a van full of strangers is better than what awaits them at home.

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{"commentId":2221121,"authorDomain":"acidreflux"}

Absolutely disgusting: print is evidently so desperate for eyeballs to replace those that they are losing on-line that they turn a blind eye to anything that will give circulation a bump. Remember that the next time one of these representatives knocks on your door: it may not be safe to even open it.

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Reply#1 - Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:55 AM EDT
{"commentId":2225778,"authorDomain":"belarius"}

100 years ago, people ran off to join the circus. Today, they become sales agents.

Welcome to America, home of the service economy.

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Reply#2 - Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:41 PM EDT
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