(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
(n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) We had achieved so much in just a few hours, if the Liberal Democrats and Tories believe that the sensationalist reporting of a small minority's actions will somehow distract from the whole they are wrong.
(2) Stone says she sees a connection between sensationalist headlines and the kind of abuse she used to encounter regularly six years ago in Cambridge.
(3) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(4) The film woudn’t have had to become sensationalistic, but finding some sources of conflict, either internal or external, that went beyond the usual Republican-Democrat sparring would have saved it from some longuers .
(5) India's often ruthless and sensationalistic media had agreed to stay away.
(6) "We are the first to concede that much more work lies ahead of us, but we refuse to accept the sensationalist, media-oriented declarations of any group, especially when they are carping and filled with incorrect information.
(7) Osborne told the BBC in an interview recorded last Thursday after his remarks about Philpott: "I think where there's been division is when you get pressure groups and sensationalist media reports.
(8) Now that the first step has been taken and the problem has been acknowledged, the debate about how to reconcile our cherished rights and values is too important and intricate to be left to the simplified and sensationalist slogan of 'the right to be forgotten'.
(9) To me it wasn't titillating, sensationalist, or even entertaining, but in terms of the way female servants were treated by those above and below stairs, it was accurate: many were raped, mistreated or subjected to abuse.
(10) We are really frustrated with the number of sensationalist claims that are being made, not just about TalkTalk as a company but more importantly about customers losing millions and millions of pounds,” she said.
(11) "The ever-increasing pressures on the Parole Board to 'get it right' all the time are at least partially driven by sensationalist and relentless reporting of cases where people released by the Parole Board have gone on to commit appalling crimes," the report says.
(12) The coverage of Muslims in mainstream media continues to be very negative and there are too many sensationalist headlines that generalise about Muslims.
(13) This misguided, sensationalist and uncorroborated journalism only serves to direct attention away from the actual perpetrators in Egypt.
(14) The author examined four weeks of stories on the Associated Press Videotext service in early 1986 in an effort to evaluate the validity of critics' charges that journalists were over-emphasizing the role of homosexuals in the progress of the disease, and that their stories were laden with negative or sensationalistic terms.
(15) In 2007 I was accused of being a “sensationalist and scaremonger” by the UK Department of Health’s chief nursing officer after I’d said the problem of antibiotic resistance affected thousands of hospital patients – and would get much worse if something wasn’t done.
(16) In recent years, more and more interpersonal problems and issues have been discussed using highly sensationalist analogies with slavery.
(17) Then she vanished, sparking a police hunt, a murder inquiry and a narrative that has gripped the nation, culminating in an arrest that caused such a media stir that the attorney general warned against sensationalist reporting.
(18) Stewart Frater (@stewart_frater) Ed Miliband has the charisma of a shoelace #Miliband January 17, 2014 @SymonHill seemed to take issue with the reactionary and sensationalist commentary found on social media, particularly in the context of bipartisan politics.
(19) However, I do think that there has been a lot of sensationalist material put out there and maybe the time is coming that the government tries to start putting forward a constructive public health message that prepares the population with the correct information because knowledge is power essentially and if you have the right knowledge then you can feel secure in yourself.” “The essence to a public health message would be to keep it simple.
(20) The governing body described the claims as “sensationalist and confusing” while Lord Coe, an IAAF vice-president who is running for the organisation’s presidency, described the accusations as “a declaration of war on my sport” .
Tabloid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Not that I would ever accept it, but because in doing so they've exposed themselves as the worst kind of tabloid.
(2) The major parties, the Murdoch press and tabloid radio is urging the nation not to lose its resolve.
(3) But he notably did not say, as he as done in previous comments about the affair, that he accepted his PR chief's assurances that he had been unaware of hacking during his editorship of the tabloid.
(4) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(5) It was the first time that the editor of a tabloid newspaper has publicly admitted using such techniques, and raised questions about journalistic standards at a time when press self-regulation is under close scrutiny.
(6) The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, trashed GM crops wearing white overalls and face masks as an emotive PR tactic.
(7) Priority has been given to applying sticking-plasters to libel law when urgent surgery is needed to regulate a tabloid newspaper industry that has been shown to have no regard for privacy or the criminal law.
(8) But because of public fear and tabloid anger about illegal drugs, scientists say they find it almost impossible to explore their potential.
(9) News Limited is the Australian arm of the global company News Corporation and publishes more than 140 newspaper titles across the country including the major tabloid titles down the east coast, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald-Sun and the Courier-Mail as well as the national broadsheet the Australian.
(10) This headline is a closely packed, multifaceted, pithy, rousing, basically perfect example of how strikes are presented in the tabloids, and have been for years.
(11) Tony Gallagher is expected to bring his long experience as a senior executive at the Daily Mail to bear as editor-in-chief of the Sun , as he aims to restore Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid to its position as Britain’s most powerful popular newspaper.
(12) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(13) Worst of times Losing the Olympic 800m to great rival Steve Ovett in 1980; being falsely accused in the tabloid press of drunken behaviour in 1984 (he went on to win an out-of-court settlement).
(14) The report finds the company "deliberately" tried to "thwart" the 2005-6 Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking carried out by the tabloid.
(15) They decided to go for it, and grew wise to the tabloid tactic of cropping out their banners – they began scrawling slogans directly on their breasts.
(16) Peppiatt on tabloids "There is a culture of bullying in some Fleet Street papers, it's real … I don't think this is an industry that is interested in, or capable of, self regulation."
(17) A Communist party-controlled newspaper has launched a searing attack on Donald Trump after the president-elect threatened a realignment of his country’s policies towards China, warning the US president-elect: “Pride goes before a fall.” The Global Times, a notoriously rambunctious state-run tabloid, was writing after Trump reignited a simmering row with Beijing by suggesting he might recognise Taiwan , which China regards as a breakaway province, unless Beijing agreed a new “deal” with his administration.
(18) Specifically, I am aware of the allegations concerning an alleged incident that occurred in June 1987, whereby (according to tabloid reports) Sean allegedly struck me with ‘a baseball bat’.
(19) "She had no idea Sam was going to propose," a source told the tabloid.
(20) It's a channel that's become notorious in the US for its shows about unusual families, largely because these families tend to become tabloid sensations and then quickly implode under the strain of it all.