Word: sensationalist
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This film could easily have degenerated into a sensationalist docudrama of Turner's life. Instead, the adapted screenplay displays keen insight into the struggle that comes whit the increasing responsibilities of any fastpaced career. The cleverness of the film comes from this appeal to an audience broader than Tina Turner fans and voyeurs of the rich and famous. It convinces the audience that any one of us could be Tina Turner; one doesn't need to have to be a rock star or have an abusive relationship to understand the complications that a lack of self-esteem can bring...
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...