Add Sayre's Law

README.md

@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ This example shares a lot of similarities with [publication bias](https://en.wik
 	- Tren Griffin: "The journalistic formula of 2018 so far seems to be: *I found a few bat shit crazy people in region X doing Y. Therefore the practice of doing Y is widespread in that region X.* A few anecdotes are not data establishing something is a widespread practice." ([link](https://twitter.com/trengriffin/status/948366029058535424))
 	- My research on death coverage in the NY Times and risk assessment ([link](https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html))
 - Realize vivid stories are powerful for user engagement, while lots of drier data and stories that inform good decisions are less monetizable (example: [Shooting of Australian in US - and media needs/pre-existing views of Australian readers](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/minneapolis-police-shooting.html))
+  - Charles Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." This is better known as [Sayre's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law) (as Charles attributed this quote to Wallace Stanley Sayre, though it is unclear whether Wallace ever said such words), and is used to explain "why academic politics are so bitter" (since the stakes are so small), though it also helps explain why non-academic politics can be so bitter at times as well
 - When you see something covered, ask yourself who is motivated to have it covered this way
 	- Especially valuable in laudatory profiles on a company or person
 	- In leaks, who could have leaked it and what was their motive? What important information might be unleaked?