Word: sensationalist
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...have been pleased with the “intelligence” of Bradley’s work. Mass. Hall derided the publication of “Harvard Rules”: Summers’ spokeswoman at the time called the portrait of her boss ”sensationalist gossip.” And though some top administrators and communications staffers read the blog regularly, many privately take issue with Bradley’s ruminations and accounts of University politics...
...American—to not see an empty glass in this situation. Not only will these rumors cost a deserving and honest candidate votes, but they further spread the acceptability of xenophobia in our media and our society. Muslims, in particular, have become an easy target for sensationalist media with thriving post-9/11 McCarthyism. Never mind the fact that Obama is a committed Christian; an even-speculative connection to Islam is enough in some people’s eyes to discredit his entire life’s work. Like the rumors spread about Senator John McCain?...
...initiative in 2004 to attract young people to Scotland to live and work in order to calm the forever-growing paranoia of declining population and increasing age demographic. And I, as a journalist, would absorb all the factoids of Scotland beyond the stereotypical kilts, bagpipes, Scotch, haggis, sensationalist journalism, and redheads and write about them in an intricate weaving of prose for Harvard students to read...
...address last month. In Australia and New Zealand, as in many Western countries, to open a newspaper or switch on the T.V. is to be assailed by another dire take on what the World Health Organization calls the "worldwide epidemic" of obesity. Clearly, it isn't just the more sensationalist elements of the media but a host of research centers and health bodies that have categorized the trend toward increasing body mass in humans as an impending disaster. The bleak diagnosis is that as a species we're carrying too much lard, exposing every system of the body to heightened...
Predictably, Summers’ resignation has inspired an avalanche of misinformed editorials, sensationalist radio and television punditry, anti-intellectual caricatures of the Faculty, and acrimonious debate—on campus and far outside of it. Widespread Faculty discontent has been likened to a “purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty...