Word: readership
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...thank him and hang up, chalking up his curtness to the fact that I'm calling on the eve of Opening Day. Then I type up a short formal note on Crimson letterhead, stressing the large size of the paper's readership and the extraordinarily high esteem in which it is held by students, Cantabrigians and alumni alike. I request that someone call or e-mail me as soon as it is known whether Zimmer can find five or ten minutes during the week for an interview...
...bold bid by Prodigy, the dowdy online service started by IBM and Sears, to break into the hot, youth-oriented Web-content business. Some $2 million was budgeted for the first year, paying the salaries of a dozen staff members. But when the first million was gone, with readership scant and no real revenue in sight, Prodigy decided to cut its losses. The company has given Halpin Stim's name and the computer that housed it. A neighboring firm has donated some office space. But with nothing to pay its contributors, Halpin & Co. must resurrect the 'zine on little more...
...some reason, journalists seemed to feel that campaign events--new strategies, snide comments, political gaffs, polls--were more significant and important to the readership than a discussion of the actual issues and positions of the candidates. The ramifications for what people base their votes on are frightening...
...reader entertained, the article brings in comic relief comments by a candidate discussing "porn channels". Granted, porn is always funny but perhaps for the first Crimson article on the council elections during campaign period, a few sentences or quotes on the issues might have been more useful to the readership...
...believe statistics on newspaper readership are far worse than you stated. Only 10% to 15% of the people I know read the local newspaper, and I'm continually amazed at how unaware most of these people are of any news, particularly important local news. Time and again I hear, "I didn't know about that," when the matter has been covered in the local paper for weeks. It's frightening that so many people depend on word of mouth to keep informed. Now and then I hear people say that if something important happens, someone will tell them about...