Gift-card sales are expected to suffer this year on widely publicized fears that they'll be rendered worthless by failing retailers.
While some of these might work, master glovemakers often use a safer, more reliable method that they don't publicize for fear the public will screw it up.
Khateeb and Saleh have also documented several cases of sexual assault by members of the opposition Free Syrian Army, but have not publicized them for fear of retaliation in opposition-controlled areas.
"Since 9/11, there has been the thought that it could be a terrorist target," Ms. Ziegler said, adding that for that reason, she and other opponents of the plant have been reluctant to publicize their fears.
Delonte West's well-publicized fear of airplanes suggests he would thrive in such an era.
In late October, the Nuggets helped his 12-year-old half-brother, Giorgi Kipiani, obtain an education visa that allowed him to leave Georgia, where publicized wealth created kidnapping fears.
To its credit the play raises perhaps the thorniest part of this issue: the possibility that our worst fears about football are true, but that even if they were widely publicized, few would care enough to stop cheering.
So Maass, in publicizing Poitras's fear of once again becoming a target of intrusive government surveillance, lends her enough renown (or notoriety, depending on your perspective) to amplify and substantiate those exact fears.
But there's no free press in China, so even after Chinese reporters got wind of the health threat this summer, they were prevented from publicizing it for fear of tainting the nation's celebration of the Olympics.
Some cases have not been publicized because their relatives abroad fear possible repercussions for the person being held.
As for the pesky Mr. Lonegan and his niche support among certain conservatives, Mr. Schundler said that he was not keeping track of endorsements, and that he had not publicized his own support for fear of taking attention from his property tax proposals.
