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Porcupine, Picayune, & Post : how newspapers get their names / Jim Bernhard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernhard, Jim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Titles of newspapers--United States.
- Titles of newspapers.
- Titles of newspapers--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Porcupine, Picayune, and Post
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Intro
- Porcupine Picayune &
- Post
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 What's in a Name?
- 2 In the Beginning
- 3 Rule, Britannia!
- 4 You've Got Mail
- 5 Gray Ladies No More
- 6 "Print the News and Raise Hell"
- 7 Party Time
- 8 Sound the Alarm
- 9 Let There Be Light
- 10 "Advertisements-The Life of a Paper"
- 11 Flora and Fauna
- 12 Myth-ellaneous
- 13 The Wheel and Other Inventions
- 14 Location, Location, Location
- 15 Oddities
- 16 The Brute, the Beast, and Other Figments
- 17 All in Fun
- 18 So Sue Me
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Newspaper Names.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6601-0
- OCLC:
- 320324107
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