Word: circe
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...Sheehy series touched off minor competitive dramas in several cities where it appeared. In San Francisco, where the Tribune Syndicate's regular customer is the Examiner (circ. 159,000), the rival Chronicle (circ. 507,000) snatched the series instead. "There was a bleep-up," said an angry Reg Murphy, the Examiner's editor. Murphy struck back with a survey of Bay Area business executives, all of whom said they would hire Cunningham on the spot...
...Washington, the afternoon Star (circ. 346,000) bought the series and was putting Part 1 to press when the Tribune Syndicate suddenly canceled the deal, insisting that the larger morning Post (circ. 601,000) had first-refusal rights. The Star, arguing that it had a valid contract, went ahead and printed the three segments it already had and, it claimed, borrowed copies of the final two from friendly editors in other cities. Thus the entire series appeared simultaneously in both papers, contrary to industry canons. Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, suspecting that the Star was lifting the series from early...
...House decision followed months of controversy over PBS's ambitious plans to pack high-tone ads-Tiffany & Co., Cuisinart, Merrill Lynch-into its new nonprofit publication and use any "surplus" revenues, a euphemism for profits, for public-TV programming. Last July Washingtonian (circ. 101,000) magazine Publisher Philip Merrill asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop the Dial's four sponsoring stations -WNET in New York, KCET in Los Angeles, WETA in Washington, WTTW in Chicago-from giving the magazine free on-the-air promotion. The Dial, he argued, will compete against other magazines at an unfair advantage...
...have increased some 450% since 1971. These concessions are enjoyed by an increasingly broad range of publications. Of the 35,000 periodicals regularly sent through the mails, 10,000 or so now get some nonprofit subsidies. They range from shoestring religious and labor newsletters to the prosperous National Geographic (circ. 10.4 million), from the National Geographic Society. Indeed, some of the nation's best-known publications are not for profit: Smithsonian (circ. 1.8 million), from the Smithsonian Institution; Natural History (circ. 478,000), from New York City's American Museum of Natural History; Mother Jones (circ...
Though few citizens would argue that nonprofit subsidies should be eliminated altogether, commercial publishers are not happy about them. Last March Entrepreneur Mortimer Zuckerman purchased the small Atlantic Monthly (circ. 337,000) only a few months before his main competitor, Harper's, went nonprofit. "How does the Government expect privately held magazines to survive?" asks Zuckerman. Geo, an expensively produced monthly introduced in the U.S. last year by West Germany's Gruner & Jahr, goes up against the nonprofit National Geographic, Natural History and Smithsonian. It is not easy. As a for-profit enterprise, Geo finds it must charge...