TIL of a calculator, by The Columbia Journalism Review, which works out your own newsworthiness if you were to go missing. It ranks from 0 (no shit given) to 128 (non-stop news coverage).

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1. I would certainly be a 0…unless you can get negative points. 🙂

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2. I was going to leave a glib comment after checking my newsworthiness, but then I saw at least I get *some* coverage unlike the people at the end of the calculator. now I’m sad

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3. Hello my fellow 0’s

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4. I got 16. White male over 60 living in Maine. Well, not Maine but an English county that’s fairly similar. Cold, coastal, east facing.

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