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1 " Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved. "
― Haruki Murakami , Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #4)
2 " ...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some unknown which I dared not face. It was a most painful position for at the same time Mary reminded me constantly that something was expected of me, some act of leadership, some newsworthy achievement;... "
― Ralph Ellison , Invisible Man
3 " Most importantly, the epidemic was only news when it was not killing homosexuals. In this sense, AIDS remained a fundamentally gay disease, newsworthy only by the virtue of the fact that it sometimes hit people who weren't gay, "
― Randy Shilts , And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
4 " They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office. "
― Tom Rachman , The Imperfectionists
5 " The greatest influence over content was necessity--they had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words, provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office. "
6 " It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is. "
