sensationalism
耸人听闻,轰动效应,哗众取宠,煽情
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- : subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
- : the use of or interest in this subject matter, language, or style: The cheap tabloids relied on sensationalism to increase their circulation.
- : Philosophy. the doctrine that the good is to be judged only by the gratification of the senses.the doctrine that all ideas are derived from and are essentially reducible to sensations.
- : Psychology. sensationism.
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In recent years, California has become the national shorthand for sensationalism.
These group chats often just end up being echo chambers for spreading sensationalism, conspiracy theories, and unfortunately lots of right-wing rhetoric.
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.