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  • The media can jabber on about a lot of things -- in the case of television and big-circulation magazines, the dumber the topic the better.

    Bob Wells: Haunted by Bill McKibben 2010

  • In his five-year tenureship of a Strauss Living, Ray had published four major books and became a regular contributor to the New Yorker and big-circulation magazines; his career was in full flower.

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • His stories were going to big-circulation magazines, and literary quarterlies, including the Paris Review and Poetry, were soliciting his poems.

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • But no Royal Commission can make the big-circulation press much better than it is, however much it manipulates the methods of control.

    As I Please 1946

  • Then, in 1960, he bought a struggling Sydney paper, the Daily Mirror, from the Fairfax group, which owned the big-circulation Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • According to the big-circulation The Nikkei, the North Korean vessel's hold carried a secret cargo of uranium highly-enriched to 50-60 percent.

    DEBKAfile 2009

  • More recently, reports have surfaced about financial troubles at other big-circulation papers such as the New York

    CFO.com: Today in Finance 2009

  • I’m initially assigned to Bus 2, which in the social pecking order ranks behind Bus 1 (TV anchors, big-circulation print reporters, favored California press) and ahead of Buses 3 and 4 (technical people and leftover foreign press, respectively).

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • Being written up at the right blogs has had way more impact for us than the press we’ve gotten in big-circulation publications.

    Micromedia: The edge in targeting audiences » Nieman Journalism Lab 2008

  • Then, in 1946, he said (apropos of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” essay) that “I don’t like the New Yorker’s suave, toned-down underplayed kind of naturalism”; in 1948, he compared Luce of Time and Harold Ross of The New Yorker, who each had an original journalistic idea “which they have slowly developed into big-circulation magazines of the appropriate mediocrity”; and in 1952, he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer.

    From Trotsky to Midcult: In Search of Dwight Macdonald 1906

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