Word: sensationalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode: Drumming the U.S. to war against Spain, Hearst sent " Artist Frederic Remington to Cuba. When Remington cabled that all was quiet, with no war in sight, Hearst fired back: "You supply the pictures, I'll supply the war." Arrogance of such magnitude is unheard of today. The sensationalist Joseph Pulitzer declared that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but the fact is that journalism today takes that maxim far more seriously than did the papers of Pulitzer's time...
...recent past were reminded of nothing so much as a sapped, wizening portrait of Dorian Gray. Not without sympathy, one wigged barrister peered out the window at a throng of TV cameramen and photographers, who were dogging Thorpe's every entrance and exit. "Well, we're a sensationalist nation," he said, "but think of a poor blighter having to take 13 weeks of that...
...younger than their peers in other jobs. The Environmental Protection Agency points out that 98% of the U.S. population is exposed to less than one microwatt of microwave radiation at any one time. Says State Department Biologist Herbert Pollack: "The 'zapping of America' is just a sensationalist charge." Perhaps so, but in an era of microwaves, their use obviously requires continued research and education...
...much-heralded mid-life transition, or midlife crisis as more sensationalist authors would have it. What does it all mean?, why have I been working on this task all this time?, am I content with the choices I have made?, can I read Camus?, often plague a man in this time of reappraisal and redirection...
...counsel to the University, began a study of Orne's work in October, after receiving the CIA documents indicating Harvard's involvement in the MK-ULTRA project. His statement on the project, released in late January, did not name Orne, who had asked to remain unidentified for fear of sensationalist publicity...