"His accomplishments," said Mr. Rogers, now a New York lawyer, "were overshadowed by another event that was deemed more newsworthy at the time."

Yet what happened in Ethiopia last month has not been deemed newsworthy.

Why, then, if the statements were deemed newsworthy, were they not reported when they were made?

Some people are deemed newsworthy and some are considered disposable.

Misery documentaries exist because sometimes other people's pain is deemed newsworthy and because sometimes the people who make them sincerely want to inspire change.

It does, however, post playtest previews of upcoming titles now and then when the article in question is deemed newsworthy.

The story was deemed newsworthy in part because Mr. Morris had devised a campaign emphasizing "values."

Although it is easier to disconfirm a hypothesis than to establish one, disconfirmations are much less likely to be deemed newsworthy.

This is an issue that is either no longer deemed newsworthy or, as Jon Entine called his provocative book on sports and race, "Taboo."