Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington correspondent Thomas N. Oliphant '67, who writes for the Boston Globe, said substantive coverage of Washington has been crowded out of newspapers by sensationalist stories and over-analysis of events...
...were genuinely concerned with "neutrality" and "objectivity," Mr. Yu would have given equal time in his editorial to medial images (or should I say distortions?) of gay and lesbian reality which can be variously described as factually inaccurate, negative, slanderous, voyeuristic, sensationalist or non-existent...
Interviewed last week before Paglia spoke at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum, Suleiman said Paglia was more of a media sensationalist than an academic...
...Pennsylvania, we learned one family's answer to an old "what would you do?" ethics question, when a baby's life was sacrificed to give her Siamese twin a one percent chance at life. An emotional human interest story soon gave way to sensationalist scandal-mongering when it turned out the twins' father was buying cocaine with money that was donated for his daughter's hospital care...
...Duval County, Florida, have sued the local school board for rejecting a broad-based sex- education curriculum developed by the board's staff in favor of a controversial abstinence-only program from Teen-Aid, Inc. of Spokane, Washington. Planned Parenthood complains that the material in the text is biased, sensationalist and, at times, misleading. Some school-board members argue that the real issue is whether the local community has the right to choose the sex-education curriculum it wants, however flawed...