Word: publishability
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...reduce the news vacuum in St. Louis, as well as supplement their weekly maximum of $65 in strike benefits, some of the unemployed journalists have pooled resources to publish a strike paper. St. Louis Today made its debut the third week of the strike, but the thrice-weekly tabloid, lacking Associated Press and United Press International service, has done little to relieve the news shortage. The 40 volunteers, working out of a vacant classroom where school desks substitute for work tables, have offered readers stories on Amtrack and the Gainesville Eight instead of concentrating on local news. The paper...
Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate. They have a major interest in 15 tennis camps that are expected to gross $2,000,000 in the next year. The Kings plan to publish a sports magazine aimed at the female audience. She endorses rackets, tennis shoes, toothpaste and hotcombs. She has signed a five-year contract at more than $100,000 a year to be player-coach of the Philadelphia entry in the aborning World Team Tennis League. Larry runs their business activities from Berkeley, which means that they...
After some financial wheeling and dealing that enables the paper to survive for a few years, The Crimson and its rival, The Advocate, began to discuss the possibility of merger. But the older Advocate haughtily rejected the idea, and The Crimson decided, on June 28, 1882, to publish as a weekly...
THIS KIND OF journalistic pandering, of course, is far more prevalent in the the rest of the American press. It is usually justified on the grounds that it is needed to sell newspapers. Leaving aside the morality of the question--why publish newspapers at all if it requires this sort of prostitution? --the basic premise remains untested. No one knows if the American public will buy responsible journalism because they have not been offered...
...REGISTER--which this year will publish only its third coed edition--is frequently regarded as the key reference book for guys looking for a date. A lot of men tell me that it was of no value to them because there'a just no way Radcliffe women will ever "drag themselves down" to dating freshmen. But the more candid have conceded that the Register is worth owning, even if the best you get out of it is being able to sleep with a picture of the girl you've been chasing unsuccessfully...