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The Sacremento Bee on James Holman, who publishes an alternative San Diego weekly, as well as a small set of feisty California conservative Catholic monthlies<\/a><\/p>\n

The focus is on Holman’s financial support of pro-life ballot initiatives, but describes his little publishing empire, which is fascinating to me:<\/p>\n

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While his Catholic newspapers fan passions of anti-abortionists backing the initiative, it is the secular San Diego Reader that has provided Holman with his financial clout to support the campaign. <\/p>\n

Founded in 1972, the newspaper has a circulation of nearly 163,000, ranking as America’s third-largest alternative weekly behind the Village Voice of New York City and the L.A. Weekly in Los Angeles. It is also one of the fattest weeklies – chock-full of advertisements – and routinely running over 200 pages. The paper notably refuses to run same-sex dating advertisements. <\/p>\n

Otherwise, unlike Holman’s fiery Catholic papers, the Reader largely stays above the fray, offering a mix of entertainment, the arts, local news and generally straight-forward political coverage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

San Diego News Notes<\/a> (links to LAMission and San Francisco Faith on that page)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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