Borrowed from John Fea's excellent blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home:

"Com-mon-place book: (noun): “a book into which notable extracts from works are copied for personal use.” Let’s give this a try. Every now and then I will post a quote or very short excerpt from a book I am reading. Some of these will be related to sports journalism or sports media, but others will come from books I am reading outside of my field. They will be pretty random.

“News space is driven by ad revenue … ads determine news space — that’s the key … what we find here is that advertising concerns largely determine not only the content of sports news — there is a profound major-league sports bias in the Examiner because this is perceived to be the sort of sports news that attracts a predominantly male readership — but also the amount of news content in each edition. The more advertising space purchased, the more space there is for major-league sports news, generally speaking.

Mark Douglas Lowes, Inside the Sports Pages, 1999