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Author Bernhard, Jim.

Title Porcupine, Picayune, and Post : how newspapers get their names / Jim Bernhard.

Publication Info. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and indexes.
Summary "Porcupine, Picayune, & Post examines the history and etymology of newspapers' names. Bernhard focuses on printed general-interest English-language dailies and weeklies, from the Choteau (Montana) Acantha to the Moab (Utah) Zephyr, with everything in between"--Provided by publisher.
Contents What's in a name? -- In the beginning -- Rule, Britannia! -- You've got mail -- Gray ladies no more -- "Print the news and raise hell" -- Party time -- Sound the alarm -- Let there be light -- "Advertisements--the life of a paper" -- Flora and Fauna -- Myth-ellaneous -- The wheel and other inventions -- Location, location, location -- Oddities -- The Brute, the beast, and other figments -- All in fun -- So sue me.
Note Print version record.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Titles of newspapers -- United States.
Titles of newspapers -- Great Britain.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Titles of newspapers. (OCoLC)fst01742558
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Title Porcupine, Picayune, and Post
Other Form: Print version: Bernhard, Jim. Porcupine, Picayune, & Post. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007012895
ISBN 9780826266019 (electronic bk.)
0826266010 (electronic bk.)
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