1.   Its significance then was not underestimated, meriting copious coverage in the local public prints and a handsome report with pictures in the eminent Illustrated London News.

2.   The arrest would not have merited news coverage under ordinary circumstances.

3.   The significance of Hague turning to the Bush brothers for advice merited front-page coverage Tuesday in The Daily Telegraph, the newspaper most closely associated with Tory thinking.

4.   They say Simpson will likely file a separate action asking a judge to decide whether coverage is merited.

5.   Authorities do not allow the media to watch the deportations, saying they are too routine to merit coverage.