Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well and wielded influence during the Reagan Administration. But in the age of glasnost, the paper's strident anti-Communism seems out of touch and its editors are struggling to find a new voice. So far, the results are mixed. "It's very difficult to be a tabloid, a sensationalist paper and a respectable paper at the same time," says Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...
...Bensonhurst killing was the catalyst for a series of demonstrations which provided more sensationalist material: some Black leaders marched through Bensonhurst and a handful of white Brooklynites shouted racial epithets at them. Several days later, thousands of demonstrators marched through Brooklyn and eventually clashed with police when they were not allowed to cross the Brooklyn Bridge...
This kind of writing is sensationalist, and it proves little. If readers do not know how or why Edward was fired, how can they ascribe to its implications...
...bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...
...enough; forceful and militant tactics are only one part of what must of necessity be a more comprehensive strategy. By criticizing activism on the basis of whether it measures up to the sheer spectacle of the sixties, Mr. Yoo falls prey to all the errors of a sensationalist press that values style over content, and ultimately shows only that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Next time, before you fault activists for their lack of commitment, take the time to figure out what's really going on. Jay Hodos...