sensationalism

Examples of sensationalism in the following topics:

• Media Bias

  • Sensationalism is a type of editorial bias in mass media where events and topics in news stories and pieces are over-hyped to increase viewership or readership numbers.
  • Sensationalism may include reporting about generally insignificant matters and events that don't influence overall society and biased presentations of newsworthy topics in a sensationalist, trivial, or tabloid manner.
  • The most commonly discussed forms of bias occur when the media support or attack a particular political party, candidate, or ideology; however, other common forms of bias exist, including advertising bias, corporate bias, mainstream bias, sensationalism, and concision bias.
  • Sensationalism is a type of editorial bias in mass media in which events and topics in news stories and pieces are over-hyped to increase viewership or readership numbers.
  • Sensationalism may include reporting about generally insignificant matters and events that don't influence overall society, as well as biased presentations of newsworthy topics in a sensationalist, trivial, or tabloid manner.

• A Communications Revolution

  • The cheap sensationalized news sources covered crime, tragedy, adventure, and gossip, and these newspapers easily shifted allegiance on political issues.

• The Cuban War of Independence

  • The Cuban struggle for independence had captured the American imagination for years, and newspapers had been agitating for intervention with horrific stories of Spanish atrocities against the native Cuban population, intentionally sensationalized and exaggerated .
  • Indignation, intensified by sensationalized press coverage, swept across the country.

• Social Criticism

  • In response to the exaggerated facts and sensationalism of yellow journalism, objective journalism, as exemplified by The New York Times under Adolph Ochs after 1896, turned away from sensationalism and reported facts with the intention of being impartial and a newspaper of record.

• The Antecedents of Progressivism

  • Publishers of yellow journals, such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, were more intent on increasing circulation through scandal, crime, entertainment, and sensationalism.
  • In response to the exaggerated facts of yellow journalism, objective journalism, as exemplified by The New York Times under Adolph Ochs after 1896, turned away from sensationalism and reported facts with the intention of being impartial and a newspaper of record.

• Urban Recreation

  • Benjamin Day , an important and innovative publisher of penny newspapers, introduced a new type of sensationalism, a reliance on human-interest stories.

• War, Empire, and an Emerging American World Power

  • The Cubans had been in a state of rebellion since the 1870s, and American newspapers, particularly New York City papers of Pulitzer and Hearst, printed sensationalized "Yellow Journalism" stories about Spanish atrocities in Cuba.

• The Boston Massacre and Military Occupation

  • A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770.

• The Rise of Adversarial Journalism

  • To add sensationalism, an "expert" may be given manufactured statistics that imply that a three-fold increase in drug use is occurring in suburban schools, and asked to comment on what it might mean, if this statistic was real.

• The Role of the Media

  • Gates also admitted to preferring political news to other types, trying to avoid sensationalism, not liking suicide stories, and preferring stories that were more narrative and did not contain facts or figures.