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Old 02-15-2012, 06:57 PM   #181
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"Downmarket" in publishing would refer to books produced with neither the resources nor the expectations of a mainstream release. They certainly are cheaper than a NYT bestselling hardcover (or initial ebook), and virtually all fiction books of this description are genre: primarily romance, crime and horror.

In the article, though, the word isn't used all that precisely--no words are, nor are any points really made. It probably wasn't worth 5+ pages of outrage.
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Old 02-15-2012, 11:03 PM   #182
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Old 02-16-2012, 06:14 AM   #183
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Hi razia-sans and welcome to MR!

You might want to use quote tags when quoting, as well as pointing to the source. I remembered reading the last two paragraphs in your post before, and that is because they have been quoted in posts #80 and #169.
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Old 02-16-2012, 07:01 AM   #184
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But I can't help noticing that this dismissal of it as the paper of well-off liberals is exactly how certain right-wingers in the States like to describe publications that support ideas like national health care.
My bad - it wasn't intended as a dismissal, merely an attempt to characterise their worldview. It's only really in 'The Land of The Free' (TM)(C)(R) that 'liberal' has become a pejorative, in most other places it still generally means an inclination towards freedom, egalitarianism and making the world a better place for all - which I think is still what the Guardian and their readers generally incline towards, even if they sometimes are rather disconnected from what life on the bottom of the heap is really like.

Nowadays the British media is, IMO, a sewer of banality, inaccuracy, pandering and corruption. The good old Grauniad might have some faults, and may have deteriorated since it's glory days, but it's still about 10x better than most British publications. And will quite possibly be bankrupt in a few more years, while CelebrityLookHeatChat Magazine, the Murdoch Empire and the Daily Heil rake in millions of profit.

That's something which may be related to their views on 'literature' versus 'entertainments' as I believe James Patterson refers to his output.
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