Union jacks started to appear everywhere, the government endorsed the campaign and popular newspapers threw their weight behind it.

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The Kindle Store at Amazon.co.uk offers customers a vast selection of over one million books - including the most best-sellers in the UK - plus subscriptions to hundreds of popular newspapers, magazines and blogs.

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Popular British newspapers and magazines printed photographs and drawings of German and British soldiers celebrating Christmas together in no-man's-land.

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Both he and his newspapers were popular with hyphenated Americans, who were pleased to find themselves affectionately portrayed even in the comic strips.

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For the first time in Reader's Digest history, subscription cards for the venerable magazine are fluttering like confetti from more than 150 million telephone books, small-town newspapers and popular catalogs.

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Even journalists in Spain's right-wing newspapers who back the Popular Party believe that the scandal, so far, has already damaged the image of the prime minister and his party.

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If it seems odd to base medical strategy on 90-year-old newspapers, the approach is increasingly popular.

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He bought one of Russia's most respected newspapers, Nezavisemaia Gazeta, a popular newsmagazine and part of a new TV station called TV 6.

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The newspapers might even give him ideas, suggesting popular subjects.

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The most popular bloggers now get as much traffic individually as the opinion pages of most newspapers.

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With four national newspapers - two daily, two Sunday, quality as well as popular - Murdoch was now in a stronger position to take on the unions at Wapping.

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Back then, before the above 3 became popular or available, there were only a few channels on TV, a handful of newspapers to read, some mega portals, and the local radio station to listen to on the way to work.

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At the same time, apprehensive publishers were faced with the issue of relevance, just as they later would face the relevance question when contemplating social distribution -- and, indeed, as newspapers had already faced with the apparent necessity of publishing on the internet at all when it became popular.

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