Content tagged newspapers

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James Surowiecki says the newspaper business is still a decent business to be in: whilst there’s no potential for extreme growth (unlike high-tech stocks, … gulfstream/2036

front pages of lots and lots of newspapers--moving gulfstream/534

Pepys’s diary, known as a “diary” for almost 200 years, is now being repositioned as a weblog... First webloggers declare newspapers’ days … gulfstream/996

A poll found that 59 percent of Europeans think that Israel is a threat to world peace; no country polled higher. This does not mean that Europeans … gulfstream/1334

Branding America: “… in the Soviet Union of the 1950s and ’60s, there was Pravda on the one hand, Voice of America on the other. The former … gulfstream/1709

Why do adults in cars now deliver newspapers? Levitt doesn’t know, but there are a few good theories in the comments, e.g. (1) parents are worried about … gulfstream/2131

Quotes Collected

[...] computers are notoriously bad at hyphenation. When the typesetting of newspapers began to be fully automated, jokes about "the-rapists who pre-ached … quotes/168

"Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers. The fountain serves no useful purpose if the horse refuses to drink." -- attributed … quotes/46