newsworthiness

How To Use newsworthiness In A Sentence

• Stories with a funny video clip -- that are so far removed from the concept of "newsworthiness" that they're not even on the same planet -- are run endlessly throughout the day. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [152] -- A Palin-Free Month?
• The recollections of Mieth and others reveal that editorial decisions were not always motivated by traditional journalistic values such as newsworthiness.
• The apparent newsworthiness of pandas coming to Edinburgh zoo may be largely down to the public's delight in this distinctive bear.
• Maybe the reason we don't hear about pretty statues and, I don't know, milkshake parlors, is that the newsworthiness of such things pales when compared with the deaths of 20-30 soldiers and Iraqi civilians a day. Fun with politics
• For especially valuable treatments of this trend -- written long before the Court's recent reinvigoration of the "newsworthiness" doctrine -- see, e.g., Robert Post, THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONCEPT OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE: OUTRAGEOUS OPINION, DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION, AND HUSTLER MAGAZINE v. Balkinization
• There is a solution that would be worth trying by those media organisations wanting a fresh approach to newsworthiness and news gathering.
• Internal Revenue Service's "taxpayer advocate," Nancy Nina Olson, announced the release of her office's annual report to Congress, a yearly federal ritual whose long and impeccable streak of unnewsworthiness was broken this year by the inclusion of an item that actually made headlines. January 2009
• But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media.
• There's only so much newsworthiness you can get out of laundry, cleaning, cooking, housework.
• But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media.