Charges dropped against Times-Shamrock owned Orlando Weekly staffers

"All sides claimed victory" in the case of three Times-Shamrock employees accused of aiding prostitution through ads in the T-S-owned Orlando Weekly.

Times Shamrock weekly drops racy back-of-paper escort ads

Orlando Weekly, the Florida alt-weekly owned by the Lynetts, has dropped the "escort" ads from the back of the paper. Three Orlando Weekly staffers are facing prostitution-related charges after undercover cops allegedly placed prostitution ads in the paper. Question: What effect, if any, does this have on similar-looking ads in Electric City?

Times Shamrock employees on undercover video

The Orlando Sentinel has video of Times Shamrock employees at Orlando Weekly talking about alleged prostitution ads. Not exactly the Pentagon Papers, but whatever.

"if guys are looking for h*** j***, or stuff like that, they're typically going to go to our Massage Section, licensed massage."

The arrest of three Orlando Weekly staffers -- that is, the Orlando Weekly owned by the Lynett family's Times Shamrock Communications -- was the talk of journalism last week. But it apparently wasn't the talk of Scranton, since the Times-Tribune opted not to write about to bury with an inside brief the story of three T-S staffers being charged in Florida with aiding prostitution by running escort service ads in the T-S alt-weekly in Orlando.

Transcript of convo between undercover cop and Orlando Weekly ad sales rep (WFTV)

A conveniently-timed Orlando Weekly story about the "jaw-dropping list of transgressions" by the agency that arrested the Weekly staffers