Word: sensationalist
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...broken up (it consists of Mawdsley locking himself to a gate and shouting democratic slogans while blasting the film soundtrack to The Mission), he decides that he will return with the intent of going to prison. He shrugs off conventional activism. "The powerfully written reports by NGOS and the sensationalist press?they all smack of hypocrisy and falsehood...
Catching a primetime exposé on hip hop music last month, it was tempting to lose faith in the mainstream media all over again. True to the sensationalist American “news,” the show blasted mainstream hip hop’s depravity, even admonishing Russell Simmons (Def Jam’s founder) in a comically stern interview for promoting hip hop music in spite of poor literacy levels among black children...
...woman’s traumatizing experience in a third world country is a bit much. The juxtaposition trivializes what should be a serious story featured in a magazine with other serious stories. I find myself grimacing at the just-for-shock-value pictures and poo-pooing the sensationalist headlines, while neglecting to read, or even skim, what might be an interesting article. The magazine is called Glamour and not Newsweek for a reason...
...anything, Kennedy has created a foundation for further discussion of the word. One student asked Kennedy to respond to accusations that his book’s title was a “sensationalist marketing” scheme, a ploy to garner attention. Kennedy “plead guilty” to the charge that he had chosen a title that would draw readers to the book’s controversial content. But it is important to remember that however unpleasant the word may ring in one’s ears, or however shocking it may appear on the cover...
Still, two major electronic movements in recent memory have served as wake-up calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997’s “electronica” craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order...