Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...need to doubt the sensationalist tabloid, “World Weekly News”; elusive sensation Bat Boy can soon be found at the New College Theatre. “Bat Boy: The Musical” follows the half-human, half-bat phenomenon as he is taken from a cave in small-town West Virginia and taught to integrate himself into society. Bat Boy must fight his natural animal instincts as he discovers family, friendship, and love amongst the townspeople...
...Boy’s father and his convoluted morality may have sparked the media fire, lingering on the hoax itself should not distract from identification of the other, larger, problem at issue—that is, the essence of Richard Heene’s plot was to exploit a sensationalist media. He knew his story would explode as soon as the media caught wind, giving him all the attention he could want. The media reaction only proved Heene right...
Knox said his daughter's testimony will counterbalance the more insidious image created by sensationalist coverage in the Italian and British press during the past year and a half. "She comes into this courtroom and smiles at me and her attorneys, and they take these pictures of her smiling out of context and say, Look, she's having a glorious day in court!" On the contrary, Knox says, his daughter "feels the Kerchers' heartfelt loss." "I hope people are starting to recognize she's an honest person who wants to tell the truth...
...reports of embedded journalists, showing terrified young faces of American soldiers and piles of death wherever one looked. Until that time, the public’s overall exposure to that kind of violence had been limited to things like comparably tame horror movies, historical books about war, and sensationalist news stories about gangsters. Although the American psyche has probably always been just as obsessed with violence as today, viewers before the Vietnam era wouldn’t be able to get their fix of it from film and television then like they can now. When people saw the violence...
...worried about being wrongfully targeted. “We didn’t want to venture out because we might get shot by the police,” he said.Singh said that as he sat in the hostel watching the news, what he saw was “horribly sensationalist,” as reports came in that as many as 15 locations had been targeted. “We heard there was fresh firing here, fresh firing there,” he said. “We knew it wasn’t true because we were there...