Lawrence's reputation and apparently irresistible newsworthiness were a constant embarrassment to the RAF.

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So the bottom of a bear market (unrecognizable at the time) is a time when the newsworthiness bias can be particularly misleading.

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But I would contend that the most newsworthy thing to report about the interview, from a global viewpoint at least, was its un-newsworthiness.

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One extreme example of the newsworthiness bias was the Y2K scare.

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Getting featured depends solely on newsworthiness and compel, not payment.

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Yet when, you might ask, did the press make the transition, now fully evident, from being fastidious about sourcing and newsworthiness to being a shill for innuendo and opportunism?

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Now, I am on the Board of this company, so I cannot say too much about it here but as a matter of newsworthiness it is worth knowing about.

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In an extreme case of the newsworthiness bias at work, news outlets ran stories about how the new cyclotron in Switzerland might just create a black hole that would instantly swallow up the earth.

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