As a fount of usually anonymous opinion, talk radio often presents the kind of voices rarely heard on network television or in big-city papers.

Not only locally-I've run it in the big-city papers, and in some of the national weekly and monthly publications.

When I'm out of town, I enjoy reading these old-style announcements almost as much as the curriculum vitae listings in big-city papers.

And if I'm going to live in a big city, I want to read a big-city paper.

The second most common source is local newspapers, which were cited much more frequently than national or big-city papers.

SMALL towns rarely make the big-city papers, and are even less likely to turn up in books.

He tells me some of the other press associations and a big-city paper or two are sending in special correspondents, beginning to play our troubles up.

Many big-city papers only belatedly addressed these issues.

"This is the last setting where you have a big-city paper and the kind of labor structure that produced this strike," he said.

It's steady, but nothing like the hectic demands of 130 Melody Carlson working for a big-city paper.