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family newspaper en · NOUN
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A newspaper with editorial standards barring the publication of vulgarity or other topics not suitable for children, especially in reference to omitted or bowdlerized newspaper content.
... [Parents are concerned] because some of the language used in these approved school textbooks is too vile, vulgar, and obscene to be printed in a family newspaper or broadcast over the air.[…]
1975 05, The Review of the News:
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A newspaper under family ownership.
Along comes a large media company with an offer to buy the family newspaper, and suddenly the owner realizes that all that separates him or her, and by extension other family shareholders, from the life of the idle rich is saying "yes."
2006, Janet A. Bridges, Newspaper Competition in the Millennium, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 52:
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