I applaud his desire to open poetry up to a greater readership.
His greatest readership certainly stemmed from his scores of novels, many of them rife with Vatican intrigue, straying priests and explicit sex.
However, there is, in my opinion, a distinct line between recounting a story for the purposes of education or entertainment and telling a story that exposes sensitive activities just to garner greater readership and personal profit.
A survey conducted in 1936 found that Ripley's cartoons were the most popular feature in any paper and had a greater readership than even front-page news.
We targeted media outlets with the greatest readership and audiences, as well as those related to pregnancy and nutrition.
This tactic has earned them a greater readership and increased income.
That's great for expanding readership.
More pertinently, grouping corrections and apologies in the same place each day gives them much greater salience – and readership – than scattering around the paper each morning, trying to find equivalent spots to the original article.
Since their audience is the country's opinion leaders, the distortions and lapses of their coverage have a deleterious effect several orders of magnitude greater than their readership.
But even as readership declines, great novels continue to be written.
