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...year-olds? It is so much more convenient to scan various world newspapers online, and I'm sure the younger crowd today just doesn't have the patience or tolerance to mess with newspapers. The papers had better move quickly if they are going to survive. Lewis Codington Sheffield, England...
...tabloid papers, "To aim at the mass market, freebies need to be [editorially] neutral," says Jo Groebel, director general of the Dortmund-based European Institute for the Media. Stripped of ideological or political bias, Metro lacks personality, insists Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section...
Silvera’s words, spoken the day before the 2005 season kicked off, proved prophetic last Thursday night, when a semi-malicious Red Sox fan—and now-former season ticket holder—Christopher House hit Gary Sheffield in the mouth as he was chasing Jason Varitek’s eighth-inning triple, leading to a punch from Sheffield and an emptying of the New York bullpen...
Still, the Sheffield incident was a little uglier than most of the confrontations in Silvera’s playing days...
Thursday night wasn’t quite fair, and it’s a tribute to Gary Sheffield that the incident didn’t become Pacers vs. Pistons round 2. Still, as paying customers looking for entertainment, the near-fracas, coupled with two managerial ejections, sure beat the alternate end of the spectrum, epitomized by those priceless interleague matchups pitting the Devil Rays against the Pirates on sweltering June afternoons...