Neil Morrissey

We get the papers: I prefer broadsheets because I had the fear of God put into me by the tabloids and, though I'm very much over it, I still don't really like to read them. It's a destructive vernacular that makes me angry and scared, and it is all sensationalist onomatopoeia and alliteration.

English Actor

Rutger Bregman

Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working.

Dutch Historian

Pankaj Mishra

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

Indian Novelist

Bill O'Reilly

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

American Journalist

Abhay Deol

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

Indian Actor

John McAfee

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

American Businessman

Raza Jaffrey

British Actor

Used when media exaggerates details to provoke public interest or excitement at the expense of accuracy.

Media Sensationalism

Often implies unethical practice to lure audiences rather than providing truthful information.

Negative Connotation

Aims to trigger emotional responses such as fear, anger, or excitement rather than rational thinking.

Emotional Impact

Describes something in an excessively dramatic or exaggerated manner, often more intense than reality.

Hyperbolic Description

Aims to captivate the audience quickly and forcefully, sometimes overshadowing other important qualities or facts.

Attention Grabbing

The term can be used by critics to dismiss works they see as prioritizing shock over substance.

Critic's Perspective

 And when this bias can be multiplied by billions of people around the world, nearly instantaneously, more caution is in order. Avoiding sensationalist media, searching for criticisms of suspicious information,

How false news can...

 We got quite some attention. And it went from quite factual, like "Higher Female Share Boosts Innovation" to a little bit more sensationalist. As you can see,

Sensationalist