Quote: diversity of news conflicts with thoroughness of reporting, so the product of frequency rank and size should be constant; e.g., data from newspapers and an encyclopedia

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In the ensuing argument we shall assume that … The problem then becomes: what kinds and amounts … will be increased for the purpose of increasing … [p. 171] With the general public … there is no marked homogeneity of interests … Therefore in order to lure these potential buyers … the editor must increase the diversity of his … [p. 172] From the viewpoint of the individual reader … [the paper should include] only those events of primary concern to … [p. 172] if the above Forces are of equal … will be established … [when] r x s = n [where r is the rank, s is the linear size, and n is the number of items]. [This leads to N x s^2 = C where N is the number of items of length s and C is a constant.] … [p. 173] [For size and frequency data from two pairs of days four years apart] (A) The Chicago Tribune, (B) The … The lines represent the best straight lines [on log-log paper] as calculated by least squares … (A) .4975 +- .0893; (B) .4495 +- .1200; … slope. … [p. 175] [The same analysis of 1150 pages of the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica] yielded the astonishingly close approximation of …   Google-1   Google-2

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