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...name of a book. But what really caught my attention about the release festivities for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was something much more subtle. On the front window of local Anderson’s Bookshop, a piece of white newsprint asked a seemingly simple question in bold black letters: “Is Snape Evil?” Around that question, the city’s children held a passionate debate in multicolored scrawls. In J.K. Rowling’s books, of course, evil is little more than a plot point, an answer...
...poll is a new campaign staple: the Trivial Story. The details change--Mitt Romney spends $300 for a makeup artist; John Kerry orders a Philly cheesesteak with provolone instead of "Whiz"; Al Gore wears earth tones on the advice of a consultant. The more trivial the story, the more newsprint and airtime it soaks...
...Harvard Alumni Association,” don’t expect an open-forum “town meeting” out of New England’s Puritan past. On matters of import, “Analysis Grammatical, Logicall and Rhetoricall” is relegated to English-language newsprint...
...anger Beah and other former soldiers felt at having lost their power and the respect due to them while allowing Beah to bring the story into focus. And that intimate focus, ultimately, is what makes Beah’s book so important. Beah is no longer a number in newsprint, but a name with a face that forces us to confront the horrifying realities of distant conflicts we’d like to ignore...
...teens. Earning a Pulitzer Prize for excellent journalism doesn't translate into sales of newspapers in this environment. If newspapers were going to be at 20% [profit margins] going forward, you wouldn't have pressure from shareholders. But revenues are declining. On the positive side, the costs of newsprint are going down next year. But circulation will probably continue to decline at 1% plus per year going forward. That's why it's key for newspapers to reinvent themselves in terms of sources of revenue...