Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush's supporters claimed 52% of the delegates. No, said Pat Robertson: his staff figured he took 40% to 45%. Both wrong, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News: "uncommitted" bagged 52%. A strategist for Congressman Jack Kemp gave no numbers but insisted that "Michigan is still up for grabs...
...full-page ads that tooted: SIMMONS SAYS WE'RE NO. 1. The ads referred to the latest survey by Simmons Market Research Bureau, which reported that the four-year-old Gannett daily has more readers than any other U.S. newspaper: 4.8 million, vs. 4 million for the Wall Street Journal, the former...
...fact, the Simmons readership figures are only a rough estimate of how many people look at a paper as it gets passed around. Most advertisers regard paid-circulation figures as a better gauge of newspaper performance. In that department, the Journal still leads, selling 1.99 million copies daily. With a paid circulation of 1.2 million, USA Today comes in third, behind the New York Daily News (1.3 million...
...What isn't fine, however, is for the media to tout the discovery as something it isn't--a major breakthrough. In fact, the media makes this mistake quite often when dealing with medical discoveries. A comparison of the articles that run in the weekly New England Medical Journal and your local newspaper will quickly confirm that...
...essential truths: "I've always thought that words were like love among tortoises -- something not well attuned as yet." This collection of letters and miscellaneous pieces would certainly strike Saint- Exupery as unpolished and riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies. It is all of that and something more: an urgent journal, composed haphazardly and under pressure, of a world in turmoil and a soul in torment...