Top Sensationalism Quotes

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly enga...

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

Sensationalism Definition

(n.) The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

(n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years… but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman’s terms. In publi...

Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

Of real sensational journalism, as it exists in France, in Ireland, and in America, we have no trace in this country. When a journalist in Ireland wishes to create a thrill, he creates a thrill worth...