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sensationalism

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The history of journalism is filled with hoaxes, sensationalism, and widespread misconceptions.

One of his kinder letters of recommendation warned that his scholarship was “open to the charge of sensationalism.”

Both presented themselves as victims of media sensationalism.

She said the drug bridge drew the predictable sensationalism from a press throng that took its drug use cues from tamer festivals.

On television, Brzezinski and others are attempting to be more sensitive to the implications of easy sensationalism.

It must aim at getting a majority on its side, and this it can only do by sensationalism.

His men understood him perfectly, and nobody within barrack walls had an idea of the potential sensationalism of his words.

When they are not impostures, a careful investigation will show that they are the effect of pulpit sensationalism.

There was no need of exaggeration—of any penny-a-line news, or of any sensationalism.

This book is fitted to keep it alive without descending to improbability or cheap sensationalism.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sensationalism, such as: aggrandizement, boasting, excess, fabrication, hype, and hyperbole.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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