Word: sensationalist
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...advertises itself as a magazine for readers. And it is, in a sense, a magazine aimed at readers--picture-readers. In the current issue of Peninsula, the editors have once again decided to give pride of place not to a learned argument against abortion or affirmative-action but to sensationalist photographs with callous captions...
...written to him in jail, the book was co-authored with Lawrence Schiller, a freelance writer who also collaborated with Norman Mailer on the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Executioner's Song." O.J. writes: "I could never kill anyone, especially Nicole," and complains of an untrustworthy legal system and a sensationalist and racist media. He says he would "jump in front of a bullet" to protect his ex-wife. Much of the book alternates between letters received in jail and Simpson's responses. He portrays himself as a spiritual man and a victim in the whole affair, and accuses the press...
...suggests that the very basis of Harvard Law, namely egos, ideology and power politics, could raze it to its foundations. Ruin, then, becomes a catchy word that legitimates the book-which proves somewhat unfortunate; since the story has appeal and merit without flashy sales tactics. So never mind the sensationalist title; a real story with fascinating insights on Harvard Law emerges from behind the cover's second-rate best-seller...
...Crimson passed up a chance to write a very interesting article on why the Office of Information Technology was looking through a student's computer files in the first place, and chose instead to write a sensationalist story about an alleged flood of pornography on the Internet. This might be racy stuff to people who are unfamiliar with the Internet, but it is not news. This stuff has been there for years, and it will probably still be there for years...
...chased scandals as though they were trophies and often prided themselves on the careers they brought down. Now the news business wonders if it has gone too far. Says Stephen Isaacs, acting dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: "The reporting on the Jones story is typical of sensationalist reporting I've seen lately about the presidency -- it's inappropriate; it's wrong. You don't print it just because someone says it. That doesn't make it so. It's like the press doesn't even consider the rules of the game anymore...