Such issues cannot compete for headlines with a human battle between a folk-hero and a sleazebag.
In those days, there were perhaps 10 major newspapers in the city, competing for headlines and readers.
The protesters have called their Somerset headquarters Camp Badger, potentially competing for headlines with environmental activists in other parts of southern England who have set up camp to frustrate plans for shale gas extraction.
MDR-TB can't compete for headlines with the likes of Ebola or the Zika virus.
On "Today," Lauer asked RNC chair Reince Priebus if he was worried about Isaac competing for headlines with the convention.
A part of the GOP problem is the plague of too many candidates, 17 at last count, with many of them competing for headlines by making outrageous statements targeting Hispanics, Muslims, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, or each other.
During the two weeks of the Rio Games, the sporting action has been competing for headlines against a series of muggings and armed robberies of high-profile athletes and visitors in Rio de Janeiro, including two government ministers.
Mr Johnson's resignation was already competing for headline space with a fresh appearance by Tony Blair before Sir John Chilcot's Iraq war inquiry, this morning.The daily papers have a lot to say about Mr Johnson's replacement as shadow chancellor by Ed Balls, a former right hand man to Gordon Brown and a ferocious political street fighter.
Coutorture has a network of 230 blogs written by readers, who compete for headline space on the main Coutorture site.
It was two historic teams playing the second game of a weekend series, the first time that the Cubs and the Yankees have played meaningful games since they met in the 1938 World Series, when Seabiscuit the horse and Roosevelt the president competed for the most headlines.
