Sentence examples for decent newspaper from inspiring English sources

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If you read a decent newspaper, you probably already know this.

No, the proper answer is that a decent newspaper is a platoon of similarly minded, but not identically minded, people who argue, debate and together fashion a view of the world which is distinctive.

Before her retirement in 2007, then, all that Manningham-Buller needed to have been doing was read a decent newspaper or use a web search, either of which would have produced headlines and articles that would have pricked the curiosity of even the dullest of minds.

If Mike Barnicle, the former Boston Globe columnist who admitted recycling stories he heard from others without checking if they were actually true, can get a job at a decent newspaper like The Daily News, why shouldn't Patricia Smith, his former colleague who admitted that she fabricated characters and quotes, get a nice respectable job, too?

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Decent newspapers, with their big reporting staffs and extensive foreign coverage, have always been costly to produce.

"Desmond has used Express Newspapers as a cash cow for years; starving the titles of the resources needed to produce decent newspapers, all the while treating staff with contempt.

He said: "It feels great and surreal to win the first album award from the Guardian, one of the few decent newspapers out there".

(All these decent newspapers, incidentally, support the independent press royal charter, not the one cobbled up by the likes of Dacre and Murdoch, giving them a right of veto over its membership).

There were no competition grounds for turning Mr Desmond down, only the possibility that it was not in the public interest for such a person to own decent newspapers, a clause in the takeover rules that had once been used (controversially) to stop another pornographer, David Sullivan, from winning control of the Bristol Evening Post group.

"It is not something I would expect a decent English newspaper to do," he said.

I'd never been able to afford to buy a decent daily newspaper, so when i appeared I thought I'd indulge myself and give it a try.

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