Word: sensationalist
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...difficult to argue with those reduce intellectual discourse of complicated issues within Islam to mere sensationalist phrases about the religion itself. No credible academic—on either side of the aisle—would so completely ignore socio-political, historic, and economic issues that are fundamentally entrenched in the idea of Islamo-fascism...
Artists who never jumped on the gangsta bandwagon point the finger at the boardroom. They accuse major labels of strip-mining the music, playing up its sensationalist aspects for easy sales. "In rock you have metal, alternative, emo, soft rock, pop-rock, you have all these different strains," says Q-Tip, front man for the defunct A Tribe Called Quest. "And there are different strains of hip-hop, but record companies aren't set up to sell these different strains. They aren't set up to do anything more of a mature sort...
...That was then. Angry at what he has termed sensationalist reporting, Musharraf launched a crackdown on the press two weeks ago. Live coverage of rallies related to Chaudhry have been banned, as have live talk shows on the issue. Opposition party organizers are routinely detained prior to planned antigovernment demonstrations. Outspoken activists have been charged with terrorist acts and others have simply disappeared. Qazim Bugti, mayor of a small town in the insurgency-wracked province of Baluchistan, was picked up in November. His is one of 99 abductions documented by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan last year...
...been a supporter and signatory to the Sudan Divestment initiative since last year.On a pragmatic level, however, The Salient has digressed into a status at Harvard that garners little to no respect. The paper has replaced The Lampoon as the campus humor rag—mainly because the sensationalist social commentary printed neither represents conservatives nor our values. The latest issue features denunciations of modern ballet as “whimsical and weightless,” commentaries arguing for a “healthy and overflowing WASP culture” and calls for all men to buy stockings...
...Ain’t So!” blared the front page of last Thursday’s Boston Herald. I noticed this sensationalist headline while strolling past Out of Town News and immediately feared the worst: Had Mayor Thomas M. Menino ingested hallucinogenic toxins while bathing in the Charles? Was he now drafting plans for Boston to secede from the union in a fit of “dirty water” driven lunacy? I took a closer look at the Herald’s front page and my mouth swung open in horror. I stood paralyzed in shock...