Word: sensationalist
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...major disappointment is the loss of control over the mass media. The entire eastern publishing industry has been taken over by such western giants as Burda and the Axel Springer group. One result is an outpouring of sensationalist and sometimes sleazy newspapers and magazines targeted specifically for the east. The western quality press is barely penetrating the new market. "They don't have anything to say to us," says Marion Fischer, an east Berlin translator...
...rather poor lighting leaves the audience more confused than amazed. And in the last two scenes, the catchy songs have all been sung, and the dancing is over. What remains is a rather explicit attempt at rape and Tony's death. Instead of being tragic, these scenes feel sensationalist...
...Dead Girl, despite a few sensationalist tendencies, is at once a genuinly sensitive, intelligent, humane and literate book that deals honestly with the dangers, especially for women, of coming of age in a violent time. It raises some unsettling questions about friendship, love and trust...
...well and wielded influence during the Reagan Administration. But in the age of glasnost, the paper's strident anti-Communism seems out of touch and its editors are struggling to find a new voice. So far, the results are mixed. "It's very difficult to be a tabloid, a sensationalist paper and a respectable paper at the same time," says Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...
...Bensonhurst killing was the catalyst for a series of demonstrations which provided more sensationalist material: some Black leaders marched through Bensonhurst and a handful of white Brooklynites shouted racial epithets at them. Several days later, thousands of demonstrators marched through Brooklyn and eventually clashed with police when they were not allowed to cross the Brooklyn Bridge...