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A person who presents stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy.
‘sensationalists got their kicks out of misreporting the murder’
‘His reputation suffered, as the diaries fed the fires stoked by sensationalists.’
‘It seems to me that his lead sentence is the mark of a clear sensationalist.’
‘The bureau got support in this endeavour not just from Hearst, but from other off-the-wall sensationalists as well.’
‘He is a tough reporter, not a sensationalist.’
‘Will we become sensationalists, or will we become intellectuals supported by listening to mentors and by producing substantive work?’
‘Perhaps if the sensationalists looked at the effects of tobacco and alcohol on the populace, they would find more serious causes to champion.’
‘The struggle between the conventional press and the sensationalists mirrored government efforts to control or eliminate the spectacle of execution.’
‘We here on this blog are anything but fear-mongering sensationalists.’
‘Pushing to excess casualty stories and other travails of military conflict are many plebeian sensationalists who fail to place such issues in proper perspective.’
‘Sensationalists claimed to believe only what they saw, but in fact they were rather better at believing than seeing.’
adjective
Presenting stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy.
‘sensationalist reporting of the latest alleged cancer cures’
‘sensationalist media campaigns’
‘In an alternate Hollywood, the media mistakes him for his criminal double, and he's subjected to a sensationalist televised trial.’
‘There is the obvious concern of turning the victim's story into a sensationalist work.’
‘They may be jumping too quickly to a sensationalist conclusion.’
‘He employed a sensationalist rhetorical style to spice up the stories of his adolescent witches.’
‘Articles on hackers and hacking increasingly use sensationalist tone and language.’
‘He believed that the discoveries of sensationalist psychology had made it possible to articulate the fundamental principles of social science.’
‘The photographs were of victims of sensationalist violent crimes.’
‘There has been a recent flurry of sensationalist warnings about the threat of exotic species.’
‘The irony is that this is not written in a sensationalist manner.’
‘Critics wonder whether the media can control its sensationalist urges.’