At least one news organization has already been April Fool-ed: Crain's Chicago Business. They picked up a fake press release from Time Out Chicago, which claimed Donald Trump had assumed a controlling interest in the magazine. (It helped that Donald smiled at readers from the cover of the March 27-April 2 issue under the headline "Our New Owner.") Says TONY: "We thought people would realize this was a parody issue." And we thought nobody took press releases at face value.

Not to long ago, we received a letter in the mail alerting us that we were being given a free subscription Time Out New York. While we love all things free and all the free food Time Out New York gave us at their eat out event, we were pissed off at the news.

We already get the New Yorker and New York magazine, and two is our limit for magazines with “New York” in the title. Now there’s no way we could ever subscribe to the New York Review of Books. Plus, we get more than our fill of Julia Allison’s insights directly from her own relationship blog.

Anyway, Time Out Chicago’s editor-in-chief Joel Reese has been fired for allegedly breaching an undisclosed company policy. Whatever. Apparently there’s no company policy against subscription-rape to increase base circulation.