What is paramount is preserving independent, original, credible reporting, whether or not it is profitable, and regardless of the medium in which it appears.
Online and off, the human factor of course remains paramount to the independent world, and while its emergent foundation has a virtual component it retains a crucial bricks-and-mortar side too.
"They've been very, very specific with us on the film, that they did not want us to push this from any side," said Kathie Berlin, an independent publicist working for Paramount who often promotes political films.
"Editorial independence is paramount".
The integrity of our agency is paramount, and we will cooperate with any independent inquiry into our work.
The Temne are divided into numerous independent chiefdoms, each governed by a paramount chief.
Many studios that operate much like independents -- among them Fox Searchlight, Paramount Classics and Focus Features -- are divisions of larger movie studios, which are owned by large media and entertainment conglomerates.
It is paramount that you re-learn how to be financially independent.
Therefore, it is of paramount importance that future confirmatory studies include use of independent ILC and IDC samples for quantitative expression profiling of the selected candidate genes.
The identification of ubiquitin-independent mechanisms for proteasomal degradation also poses the paramount question of the multiplicity of catabolic pathways targeting each protein substrate.
(DreamWorks Animation, run by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is an independent company with a deal to have its movies distributed by Paramount until 2012. It would be unaffected by the current talks).
