Word: readership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne's sharp, sure feline touch, women formed fully 46% of the Daily Express' readership...
These thrusts are as valid as the accolades. As a columnist, writing for a potential readership of some 20 million, Lippmann has a reach far short of his grasp. His work is literate but can also be obtuse, repetitious, and obscure. The reader is expected to know all about "the long Soviet note to Berlin" and the ideology of John Maynard Keynes; Columnist Lippmann will not enlighten him. "I do not assume," he says, "that I am writing for anybody of a lower grade of intelligence than...
...recurring difficulty all these publications have faced is to discover a function to perform. As Radcliffe's activities become more and more merged with Harvard's and as Radcliffe editors become more numerous on Harvard publications, the scope and readership of a purely Radcliffe literary venture narrows. Yet the persistence of the Annex over the years tends to lessen any idea that her press will ever stop completely...
...flatly charged that daily journalism has degenerated into a "holding operation, and not holding everywhere [in an] era of broadcasting." ¶ The problem of the metropolitan press is not television, argued J. Edward Murray, managing editor of the afternoon Los Angeles Mirror News, but a rising competition for both readership and advertising from the suburban press. ¶ From a surprising source-Jack Patterson, circulation manager of the Washington Post and Times Herald-came an indictment of editorial vulnerability to pressure from advertisers. He cited the case of "one of the nation's largest newspapers" whose publisher, fielding an advertiser...
Life's Inside Story. In response to earlier criticism, Adams in his massive History denied himself those highly colored, stylistic tropes that Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once called the "Macaulay flowers of literature." But if the book never enticed the readership he thought it deserved, it may have been because its nine volumes did not show that he had followed his own editorial creed ("Omit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit . . ."). In Author Samuels' view, Adams' philosophy of history parallels Tolstoy's in War and Peace, i.e., history is "a vast irony...