[WikiEN-l] What W is not

[Christopher Mahan]

--- tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:

> A good measure of achievement is whether their lives (or deaths)
> were 
> newsworthy, that is, that there exist external sources on the
> people.

Define newsworthy in this day of blogs and instant reporting about
every little thing.

<fictitious>
The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday about a shop owner in los
angeles who finds the restriction on liquor permits restrictive.
</fictitious>

It was in print in a national newspaper. Should it be here? Probably
not.

Likewise is something was not in print in a newspaper and not covered
by CNN, does that by default make it not encyclopedia-ish?



 

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