Still, as magazines and newspapers slowly make the inevitable transition from print to digital, it remains to be seen what will happen to the Postal Service. In the short-term, though, the proposal to sell magazine subscriptions directly to consumers looks likely to end up benefiting everyone—magazines get more subscribers, journalists get more readers, consumers get another convenient way to subscribe to magazines, and the Postal Service ensures that people keep checking their mailboxes.
Behind the News
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The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
Paragraph 5: " With both publishers and the Postal Service rapidly shrinking, they want to act to staunch the bleeding as quickly as possible."
I think the proper word is 'stanch.'
Unacceptable error from the vaunted Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
#1 Posted by James Wilkinson, CJR on Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 09:43 AM
Amazon sells magazine subscriptions so I don't get it unless the USPS has a better price to offer to consumers. If it was me I would try to partner with the Newspaper companies. Have the mail service deliver them to each household. Lets work to keep USPS running for the common good.
#2 Posted by Herschel Everett, CJR on Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 12:49 PM
James, good catch. On a similar one, I hate people using "gauntlet" instead of "gantlet." I caught National Geographic on that one once.
#3 Posted by SocraticGadfly, CJR on Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 02:04 PM
Word History: The spelling gauntlet is acceptable for both gauntlet meaning "glove" or "challenge" and gauntlet meaning "a form of punishment in which lines of men beat a person forced to run between them"; but this has not always been the case. The story of the gauntlet used in to throw down the gauntlet is linguistically unexciting: it comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, "glove." From the time of its appearance in Middle English (in a work composed in 1449), the word has been spelled with an au as well as an a, still a possible spelling. But the gauntlet used in to run the gauntlet is an alteration of the earlier English form gantlope, which came from the Swedish word gatlopp, a compound of gata, "lane," and lopp, "course." The earliest recorded form of the English word, found in 1646, is gantelope, showing that alteration of the Swedish word had already occurred. The English word was then influenced by the spelling of the word gauntlet, "glove," and in 1676 we find the first recorded instance of the spelling gauntlet for this word, although gantelope is found as late as 1836. From then on spellings with au and a are both found, but the au seems to have won out.
#4 Posted by Wordsmith, CJR on Fri 28 Dec 2012 at 10:26 AM
Thanks to those who pointed out the usage error; it's been fixed.
#5 Posted by Kira Goldenberg, CJR on Tue 1 Jan 2013 at 07:20 PM