Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flows well, and White effectively evokes the hard news soft news conflict and the resulting newsroom tensions. While an air of stereotype pervades some of the characters and situations, those interested in the inner mechanisms which fuel the machine that ultimately deposits a pile of distinctive and allegedly definitive newsprint at your door should find True Bearing an abosorbing read...
Publisher Seawell called the Times Mirror "the best possible purchaser," adding, "I'm delighted with their enthusiasm. So many of our problems will be solved." Foremost among those problems has been the high cost of newsprint; Times Mirror Co. has plentiful supplies. And without the financial encumbrance of the Bonfils foundations, the Post may well return to those thrilling days when its profits, and its spirits, were Rocky Mountain high...
...radio and television promotion and raised its newsstand price from 30? to 35?. Warren H. Phillips, 54, chairman of the parent Dow Jones & Co.,* said the paper simply could not satisfy the demand: "If we let it go on at that rate, we'd eat up our newsprint supply long before the end of the year...
Pravda is skinny compared with U.S. dailies (only six pages most days), partly because there are no advertisements, partly because newsprint supplies are chronically short. But the paper's production and distribution system dwarfs anything in the West. Pages are transmitted by satellite to printing plants in more than 40 cities, so the whole country gets delivery the same morning. Pravda employs 180 editors and writers in Moscow, 60 staff reporters around the country and 40 foreign correspondents. Fewer than half of these journalists come from journalism schools; the rest have worked their way up from small papers...
...light bulb; but for its presence, the mural would scarcely seem to belong in the world of Heinkel bombers and incendiary bombs. Yet its black, white and gray palette also suggests the documentary photo, while the texture of strokes on the horse's body is more like collaged newsprint than hair...