Fit to Print

All the news that's fit to print?

The CIA is working overtime these days, turning out en masse books and articles designed to help cover up its bloody tracks in the two Kennedy assassinations, une such obviously inspired "literary" product is a pocketbook entitled "Satan's Assassins," published last year by Lancer Books, New York .brad Steiger Barren smith are listed as authors, they have found out, it seems, what really goes o...

Fit to Print: A Natural History of Obesity Research in the Cana

This natural-history approach to investigating media reports concerning health can reveal the complex process whereby health research becomes news. Using television and newspaper reports of a press event taken from a larger project, this article examines the inception and mediation of obesity research in the Canadian news media. By exploring questionnaire data, a media release, telephone interv...

What's fit to print: The effect of ownership concentration on product variety in daily newspaper markets

This paper examines the effect of ownership concentration on product position, product variety and readership in markets for daily newspapers. US antitrust policy presumes that mergers reduce the amount and diversity of content available to consumers. However, the effects of consolidation in differentiated product markets cannot be determined solely from theory. Because multi-product firms inte...

Fit for Print: Developing an Institutional Model of Scientific Periodical Publishing in England, 1665-ca. 1714.

This paper explores the contested afterlife of Philosophical Transactions following the death of its founder, Henry Oldenburg. It investigates the complex interrelation between the institution and the periodical at a time when the latter was supposedly independent, and outlines the competing proposals for institutional publishing in science contemplated in the Royal Society, linking some public...

[Goodbye to print medical journals?].