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The owner of a chain of free newspapers in central and west London has decided to print only good news: Mappin acknowledges that for local papers, there is also a clear financial motive. “Any sales person will tell you that the way to sell a product is not to give a customer lots of bad news before you offer the product.” He says advertising revenue has increased sharply since the introduction of the new policy, and that readers have written in to applaud the editorial stance. He would not turn away an investigative story that exposed malpractice, says Mappin, as