make good copy

"And to make good copy, I gave the press a colorful personality to focus on," he wrote.

Some of this seems like an act; zaniness makes good copy.

I am a freelance writer and this surely would have made good copy.

The spectacle of B-52 carpet bombing makes good copy for television news programs.

Extremists tended to be heard more because they made good copy for newspapers and television.

The use of technology makes good copy, but the technology itself is neutral.

Everybody who is in the arts likes to emphasize the romantic because it makes good copy.

In journalistic terms, they did not make good copy.

That would make good copy all by itself.

The world needs scoundrels because they make good copy.

You can learn very little from these observational studies, but the consumer is bombarded with them because they make good copy.

That made good copy, but she knew that no court of public opinion could protect her within these gates.

Writing about them makes good copy; basing decisions on them would make bad public policy.

'This should also make good copy,' Jack suggested as he turned to locate another bottle of wine.

And he knew Rozhdestvenskiy knew that, but it made good copy to his troops.

All of which made good copy for the local press, but nobody seemed to know what good would come of it.

But that wouldn't make good copy, I suppose.

But stranger abductions made good copy, and therefore became a public concern out of all proportion to their real importance.

Abello's intrepid action made good copy for war correspondents on board ship.

"At least it will make good copy."

Stick with the shvartzes-- those jazz guys make good copy."

The questions would be overly respectful, inviting Roy to play the guru, since his opinions always made good copy.

Finally, the dialectical absolutism of his article might make good copy for an opinion editorial, but it does not reflect reality.

Whatever else he does, Mr. Cimino makes good copy.

"It made good copy," she says, but the vans "represent less than one-half of 1 percent of the housing here."