Below is an interesting discussion about how news reporters
choose the science stories and research that they write about.
They confess to liking dinosaurs as a favorite topic.
When Is Science Newsworthy?
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Published on May 21, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KnJXJZGpw
Two papers mentioned in this discussion are:
Sumner, P., Vivian-Griffiths, S., Boivin, J., Williams,
A., Bott, L., Adams, R., Venetis, C.A., Whelan, L.,
Hughes, B. and Chambers, C.D., 2016. Exaggerations
and caveats in press releases and health-related
science news. PloS one, 11(12), p.e0168217.
Abstract - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0168217
PDF file - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/562a/1075e1a0f4d6476ad80bee0a047cdb9fbd57.pdf
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/74224673.pdf
Yours,
Paul H.