The sensationalism of the story piques curiosity and attracts attention.
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There is a lot of sensationalism and oversimplification out there.
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Her first objectives are clarity and accessibility rather than sensationalism.
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If anything, the allusion was a respectful avoidance of sensationalism.
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Immigrants in America have been targeted for political sensationalism before.
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"I didn't want to contribute to the sensationalism," she said.
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It tries to paint a picture of sensationalism and gore.
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The stakes are pitched deliberately low, as if to avoid sensationalism.
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He called coverage of the photo "sensationalism," according to the outlet.
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It's precisely the type of sensationalism that she is fighting against.
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And you ought to get back to reporting rather than sensationalism.
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And they deliver Ms. Despentes's blows without a hint of sensationalism.
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It reduced many aspects of modern life to entertainment, sensationalism, and commerce.
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Piled-on sensationalism couldn't quell Anonymous' growth; it only made them stronger.
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State media, however, have dismissed such complaints as sensationalism and rumour-mongering.
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D'Amico thinks the show has been filled with more sensationalism than truth.
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"There's been a real effort to down-rank clickbait sensationalism," Brown said.
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But there's no violence in Hansen-Love's world, no sensationalism, nothing lurid.
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The sensationalism, at odds with the project's deliberate austerity, rattled Ms. Cennetoglu.
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We should strive for more than pure sensationalism or escapism in our entertainment.
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"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Zuckerberg writes.
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The answer, Airline Weekly managing partner Seth Kaplan says, comes down to sensationalism.
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When this happens due to media sensationalism, the media has effectively abetted terrorism.
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But these mechanics also incentivize publishing of highly polarized opinion, exaggeration, and sensationalism.
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They're also genuinely entertaining, recapturing lost details of thinkers' personal lives without sensationalism.
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Spin massages the facts; sensationalism overheats the facts; and propaganda rejects the facts.
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RP: I think there was a certain sensationalism that went along with it.
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"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Zuckerberg wrote.
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Yiddish journalists were showboats, garnishing tabloid sensationalism with literary jokes and religious references.
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But Trump has created a platform where people love the sensationalism of it all.
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Their sensibility—blending fine art, glamour, sensationalism, eccentricity and sex—runs parallel to his.
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She wants people to stop listening to the sensationalism and come hear the truth.
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Some of these artists will rise beyond sheer sensationalism; others will flame out quickly.
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The constant drive for ratings or clicks injects destructive sensationalism into our national discourse.
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Before the 70s, few queer subjects were depicted in art without condemnation or sensationalism.
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As any online journalist will tell you, "engagement" and "sensationalism" are very often synonyms.
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No panicking, no sensationalism, just everything you need to know in one daily update.
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But bad journalism — like tabloid sensationalism, hyperpartisan fear-mongering, and deliberate disinformation — exploits them.
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"Oftentimes when synthetic biology is introduced to the press, there's this overarching sensationalism," he says.
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Indeed, it was the perfect choice to mirror our new president's unending appetite for sensationalism.
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Like everyone else, I heard the warnings, though I dismissed them as mere media sensationalism.
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The threat is always there but sensationalism offers only distraction, not an informed emotional punch.
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Shows were capitalizing off of this sensationalism by constantly engaging shooting-turns-to-protest storylines.
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Omar responded that the use of the Arabic names was a product of media sensationalism.
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William Randolph Hearst built a newspaper empire on sensationalism when that's what the audience demanded.
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We're developing systems to automatically reduce the distribution of borderline content, including sensationalism and misinformation.
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The other kind of person that reads the biography is probably just looking for sensationalism.
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Almost four decades later, the opioid epidemic has shown that journalism still slouches toward sensationalism.
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The harm is that sensationalism moves people away from balanced nuanced opinions towards polarized extremes.
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But it also should not pretend that the only two options are neglect and sensationalism.
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It is a subject that would seem to lend itself to sensationalism and horrified indignation.
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The masses judge and relish in the sensationalism — and the very few give truth and love.
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And then there's the Daily Mail, which exists in its own category of flagrant tabloid sensationalism.
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Subscription payments free journalists from relying on clickbait and sensationalism to get clicks and ad views.
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In so doing, it has the potential to reduce some of the negative effects of sensationalism.
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Seeking empathy through sensationalism is something left-leaning liberals are frequently ridiculed for by the Right.
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The desire to frighten someone, he says, is a product of a society obsessed with sensationalism.
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The sample I've chosen above skews toward sensationalism more than the list's creator would have approved.
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Do does not allow the hardships his mother and millions more endured to fall into sensationalism.
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Heightening the sensationalism, she did so after losing a breast in a freak accident at sea.
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The sensationalism exacerbated a second problem with the coverage: the obsession with Clinton's private email server.
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But if you're seeking an antidote to sensationalism, you might look to the world of documentary.
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What is Gingeras's goal, with her exhibition title equating these artists to sex workers, beyond mere sensationalism?
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Sensationalism and smut sells, and they're digging for it from the politician and anyone close to him.
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It's why we watch reality shows and all this stuff, but I'm not here to create sensationalism.
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You could see the scene as an allegorical critique of TV more interested in sensationalism than humanity.
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"Alone, crime and celebrity are inherently interesting and lend themselves to sensationalism and prurient interest," she said.
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If the most that the sensationalism press has on me is my personal life, so be it.
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But, his skill set is in stoking sensationalism, not professional acting, creating controversy rather than solving problems.
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Published guidelines for the media are meant to help reduce this possibility by, in part, avoiding sensationalism.
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Wall said she prides herself in keeping a measured tone online, not feeding into sensationalism or hype.
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And on Sunday, the sensationalism through which the administration carries out that cruelty was on full display.
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Doing so prevents any hint of sensationalism or manipulation, and puts the novel at a glossy remove.
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I loved how it mixed flamboyance with a hard materialistic silver sensationalism that demanded my aesthetic contemplation.
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And so the media narrative shifted, becoming about the problem of sensationalism and ideologically motivated fake news.
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But I fear the sensationalism with which this report was received could do more harm than good.
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Facebook's imperative to maximize engagement, by contrast, lands it in an endless cycle of sensationalism and nonsense.
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True crime, even when it rises out of sensationalism and sadism and pulp, is about the criminals.
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The selection of news stories, and the sensationalism of certain crimes vilifies people who commit those crimes.
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Sensationalism, self-righteousness, sentimentality — there are plenty of traps lying in wait for playwrights examining gun violence.
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Certainly for Native American bodies we would not tolerate such cavalier treatment of ethics, or such sensationalism.
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It is quite sad that name-calling garners more attention and sensationalism than State-sponsored mass murder.
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Exploring something as horrifyingly real as rape in such philosophical terms runs the risk of insensitivity, even sensationalism.
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He also alleged his French counterpart had used sensationalism and fake photographs to call attention to the problem.
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Social sites have struggled to reduce fake news stories, sensationalism and hoaxes that spread easily on social media.
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In a presidential race with the focus solely on sensationalism, the media is pushing truly important stories aside.
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But beyond the obsession with entertainment and sensationalism is a troubling lack of understanding of basic American Civics.
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These contractors were also instructed to analyze headline styles, sourcing of quotes and facts, and to avoid sensationalism.
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Buren's Mannerist-Modernism is usually a space without much heat or weight, even while it strives for sensationalism.
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But we also expect an artistically valid justification for bending the truth, and sensationalism isn't one of them.
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I promised every person I interviewed that I would never try to make this a piece of sensationalism.
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But sensationalism and polarization and other things, I actually think, are probably even stronger and more prolific effects.
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Facebook has a new area of its app it will have to police for fake news and biased sensationalism.
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The editing has led some people to criticize the series for sensationalism and poor representation of a personality disorder.
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"The sensationalism of what some people would like to see and what is are two different things," Winbush said.
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That comes in response to the role Facebook played in spreading sensationalism and misinformation around the 2016 presidential election.
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Because the presentation is so measured and quiet, "Striking Vipers" never feels like it's going for sensationalism or tension.
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With Chappaquidick, Allen and Logan's intention is to render a version of the story that is free from sensationalism.
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While Klauke's experimentation with dress and gender representation is playful and colorful, the work is not lost to sensationalism.
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"THERE'S too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarisation in the world today," lamented Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook, recently.
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Facebook was built to foster engagement, and sensationalism (just one of the many forms of Fake News) encourages engagement.
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The profit motive in the media leads to lots of positive outcomes, but it also leads inexorably to sensationalism.
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It was supposed to feel loose and real, but the sensationalism and Hollywood story arc didn't mirror the reality.
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Elections are highly sensitive and impactful events, but the sensationalism of potential vulnerabilities puts people even more on edge.
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The most glaring example of unhelpful sensationalism, which virtually all sides contribute to, pertains to the Christopher Steele dossier.
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I did my best to hold it to that and not just do it for the sake of sensationalism.
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But the same forces that buoyed Mr. Trump's campaign have distorted news coverage toward sensationalism and away from sobriety.
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In a recent post, his vision of an "informed community" on Facebook included tamping down on sensationalism and polarization.
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But as Morris presents it, what resulted from the 1977 case could be the perfect indictment of sensationalism and obsession.
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Perhaps the deepest real bias the media has is towards sensationalism, and few politicians exploit that more cunningly than Trump.
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Let's take a step back from trade-war sensationalism and make an objective appraisal of the so-called nuclear option.
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I think there is a sensationalism about it that is not entirely relevant when we are talking about HIV transmission.
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These platforms could not promote "mammonism, extravagance, or sensationalism", nor could they feature excessive marketing during shows, the regulator said.
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"There are allegations that our communication is rife with sensationalism and embellishment but we never abandon the truth," said Ahmadi.
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Memo to "anonymous," his fellow "adults" and the Times: democracy dies in subversion of democratic mandates and in runaway sensationalism.
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The film captures up close the way violence transforms neighborhoods and families with an immediacy that transcends headlines or sensationalism.
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And these dramatic -- I can tell you right now, the media ought to take a pass on – or on sensationalism.
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"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in announcing the move.
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And you're doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and Concast -- I don't call it Comcast I call it Concast.
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We will educate ourselves so that we stand for something larger rather than to fall for sensationalism, lies and injustice.
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The company has grown its user base while allowing its News Feed to fill with outrage, sensationalism, and fake news.
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Their authority on the issue can cut through the misinformation, sensationalism and faux outrage that define much of today's media.
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I understand now how easily anguish and despair can produce regressive, knee-jerk reactions—fueled by fear and stoked by sensationalism.
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The sad, strange phenomenon that is the false confession gets its due in Kelly Loudenberg's stunning antidote to true crime sensationalism.
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He lamented what he called journalistic activism and sensationalism, extolling his own investigative research credentials as a published novelist in Panama.
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"We're trying to do as much as we can to get false news, clickbait and sensationalism off our platform," Mosseri insists.
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And through the referral traffic and subsequent ad revenue Facebook delivers, it incentivizes sensationalism that divides the populace into oppositional forces.
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While Pauline Kael was an early and mostly steadfast champion, other reviewers objected to the violence and sensationalism of his movies.
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The movie's undisciplined desire to "rip from the headlines" cheapens the inherent drama of its central conflict in deference to sensationalism.
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Our research further shows that the links they share tend to include low quality content such as clickbait, sensationalism, and misinformation.
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In the absence of the full historical truth about the British monarchy, sensationalism, suspicion and spin have reigned for too long.
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"Novitiate" avoids both the laundered piety of that movie and the sensationalism that hovers around the subject of women and religion.
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There's a lot of sensationalism going on in the market and people are completely losing site of what the Fed's mandate is.
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Because journalists trying to maximize the traffic to their articles quickly learn the same lessons those Macedonian teenagers did: Sensationalism attracts clicks.
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Netflix's Casting JonBenét is the closest you'll get to a JonBenét Ramsey documentary that doesn't carry the stench of exploitation and sensationalism.
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Let's wait until the election season is over, Sara, because I think right now, there's so much sensationalism in the election season.
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For us, that was a part of trying to reduce the sensationalism that we'd seen in the way the story was covered.
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Chazelle has also been commended for directing a space movie devoid of all sensationalism, something we've come to expect with "astronaut" movies.
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Phng Li Kim, who presents documentary-style paranormal reality series The Paranormal Zone, says she keeps clear of sensationalism on her show.
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"What we had here was exacerbated sensationalism that was aimed at annulling criminal convictions, especially that of ex-president Lula," Moro said.
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For now, the nation's highest court doesn't need the posturing, grandstanding, mugging, and sensationalism that would surely accompany the presence of television.
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But our media ecosystem doesn't do well with nuance, and sort of—it values clickbait and sensationalism, it values likes and views.
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"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, wrote in a post on Friday.
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They reveal a society that is painfully divided, gullible to misinformation, dazzled by sensationalism, and willing to spread lies and promote hate.
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Publishers Weekly said that Brandt's book (aka all of Sheeran's confessions) didn't have much in the way of credibility, but sensationalism sells!
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But "super blood wolf moon" is a name that somehow combines sensationalism, doomsday conspiracies, and botched Native American culture into one unscientific name.
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Jennifer Aniston has been in the public eye for decades now, so she's experienced her fair share of public scrutiny and media sensationalism.
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The Dark and Middle Ages, in fact, are some of the most heinous sources of design sensationalism; of countless objects that became real.
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Unfortunately, in the past Scarborough attracted the label of being unsafe due to the sensationalism of gun crimes and murders from local media.
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They reverse the trend of imposing, grandiose contemporary art and monumental political art, where individual sensitivity is superseded or shattered by bombastic sensationalism.
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It features an international ensemble of well-known actors playing real historical figures, and tries to balance geopolitical sobriety with suspense-thriller sensationalism.
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Rush Limbaugh has been relying on sensationalism and bombast for decades, but almost no one would question whether he believes what he says.
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When it comes to behavior in the COVID-19 pressers, however, the press' urge for confrontation and sensationalism overwhelms their sense of professionalism.
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There are many steps like this we have taken and will keep taking to reduce sensationalism and help build a more informed community.
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Even a subscription-based social network would want to engage its users, he said, and what engages users is sensationalism and filter bubbles.
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It's certainly possible to portray the appalling and horrific nature of Nazi violence without sensationalism; Roman Polanski's The Pianist instantly springs to mind.
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"We will not be swayed by hearsay, false rhetoric or sensationalism in a manner that would cause harm to the innocent," he wrote.
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" She also took a dig at CNN President Jeff Zucker, saying the sensationalism and disregard for facts was "coming directly from the top.
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Granted that's an odd reaction after reading two books about the catastrophic danger of earthquakes — but neither book wallows in sensationalism or alarmism.
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It makes one suspect that Climate Change: Part One's middling, Hollywood-blockbuster conceit trades on this counterproductive sensationalism as a ploy for attention.
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You've surely seen them — sports talk shows rooted in hot takes and hyperbole, banking on controversy and sensationalism to bring in viewers and dollars.
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Since the show is housed in the National Building Museum, it focuses on the design features of St. Elizabeths, which grounds it against sensationalism.
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"Fake news" is a broad term that can cover satire, propaganda, conspiracy theories, sensationalism, and almost any given news story with a political bent.
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The sensationalism driving the narrative around dating apps and STDs plays into the same underlying morality argument behind sex-ed and birth control opposers.
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Without that filter, it implies that interior design is at least one arena in which Trump does not intend to embrace sensationalism and opulence.
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Omar, now a Minnesota congresswoman and then a community activist, responded that the use of the Arabic names was a product of media sensationalism.
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The film's clever conceit — that it is a trailer for a longer Hollywood movie — lampoons the sensationalism of pop cinematic representations of climate change.
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At the time, public unwrappings were staged in front of large audiences, and were often more about sensationalism than advancing our knowledge of mummification.
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Tension flared between the two singers; James complained to journalists about the sensationalism of Prince's act, with its eye-popping clothes and obscene lyrics.
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Sensationalism surged again during the Roaring Twenties, in the form of tabloid journalism that emphasized sex and crime and helped turn news into entertainment.
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Orstavik's mastery of perspective and clean, crackling sentences prevent sentimentality or sensationalism from trailing this story of a woman and her accidentally untended child.
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She succeeds "in taking us to the darkest recesses of human behavior without a jot of sensationalism," wrote Dominic Cavendish in the Daily Telegraph.
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Yesterday we rejected the sensationalism of our universities' antagonism to protest their joint complicity in the climate crisis and the exploitation of Puerto Rico.
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There can be a lot of sensationalism when it comes to lesbian movies, and you also have a male director, which can be tricky territory.
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I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen a movie so attuned to the internal desires of a black woman, without falling back on sensationalism.
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His penchant for sensationalism and reactionary commentary suggests he instinctively understands how algorithms and virality work; he's a genius at igniting and sustaining news cycles.
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Brexit, Trump, and a global assault on democracy were propelled forward by polarization, sensationalism, and misinformation — all of which found a welcome home on Facebook.
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Based on a murder case that shocked Mexico in 2009, the film is less interested in sensationalism or sleuthing than in the operations of fate.
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After tracking down local fortunetellers and taking part in some of the secret rituals, we try to discern if there's any truth behind the sensationalism.
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" She went on to declare, in her rejection of the antics of McCarthy, that the Senate should not become "a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism.
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Her character also desperately wants to do quality journalism and resists her station manager's demands for sensationalism almost right up until her horrifying final act.
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I think the exhibition is stronger for not obsessing on this part of Perry's oeuvre; there has always been an air of sensationalism about it.
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They'll need to debase their voice and amp up the sensationalism of their headlines or risk their users straying an inch over to someone else.
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The Bezos-inspired television news organization would have little discussion of the short-term news cycle nonsense and cheap sensationalism that permeates television news today.
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While sensationalism might win him a few media sound bites and additional press, it is no way to go about making sound criminal justice policies.
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Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post that the move was meant to curb "sensationalism, misinformation and polarization" on the platform and promote "meaningful" user interactions.
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If we listen to scholars, we often hear that the sensationalism and factual errors in popular understanding of history are the fault of the media.
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While journalists serve an important role in exposing predatory behavior, we are seeing irresponsible choices and an addiction to sensationalism which leads to inconsistent storytelling.
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Instead of a sociopathic YouTuber hellbent on sensationalism and fame, he comes off as a misunderstood 21-year-old kid trying to keep his company afloat.
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His time with Cooney goes one step further, removing the sensationalism of his early work and producing an honest conversation about a difficult and important subject.
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There is a certain element of expletive present behind the title, sure, but in no way did I arrive at it for the purpose of sensationalism.
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Both The Last Defense and The Case of: Caylee Anthony purport to go beyond the tabloid sensationalism and melodramatic approach of the media and the prosecutors.
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Deft scripting, characterisation and nuanced performances—particularly from Ms Foy—make sure the insights into the private lives of the royal family never stray into sensationalism.
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Several recent studies confirmed the sorry state of issue-oriented news coverage in this campaign—that the media prioritizes polls over policy and sensationalism over substance.
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"When you tell someone, 'That's a jail,' people have all of these strange thoughts, mostly from fictional accounts on television, and all the sensationalism," Patrick said.
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Wobbling uncertainly between sensationalism and studiousness, "Generation Wealth" might seem simply a marketing adjunct to her 2017 breeze-block of a book and exhibition of photographs.
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You'll like it if you liked: "Whitney: Can I Be Me," another Whitney Houston documentary that came out last year, but you wished for less sensationalism.
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As people who study and write about the past, we should take the time to encourage that interest, rather than choose the easy route of sensationalism.
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Mostly abstaining from easy sensationalism, they are laudably committed to the harder task of making dance work as dance, almost solely through abstraction rather than narrative.
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Such is the strange, self-contained media ecosystem that Twitter has spawned around certain celebrities — a food chain of voyeurism and attention-mongering that trades in sensationalism.
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Striking a sometimes uneasy balance between trust-no-one espionage and sensationalism, Sparrow seems likely to attract a fairly large audience but leave few moviegoers fully satisfied.
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In isolation, these examples might be quickly forgotten, but together, they fit the pattern of a campaign that has largely been built on scapegoating, dissembling and sensationalism.
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"The need to prevent such 'sensationalism' is particularly acute here because of Mr. Trump's unique circumstances in running for president of the United States," their filing said.
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Perhaps the subtext here is the reconciliation of tensions among the races, but a gratuitous sensationalism prevails, something akin to the grotesque photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin.
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"I Called Him Morgan," a suave and poignant documentary by Kasper Collin, dusts off the details of Morgan's life and death and brushes away the sensationalism, too.
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Instead, the brutality of his gang and their rivals — directed against minor characters — is depicted with a mixture of sensationalism and squeamishness that feels sleazy and dishonest.
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" He specifically called out The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times as outlets where "sensationalism and commercialism have superseded accuracy and journalistic integrity as primary objectives.
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A LIVELY brew of tabloid-style sensationalism, erudite literary commentary and exposés of figures ranging from pop idols to politicians, Japan's tabloid weekly magazines, or shukanshi, defy categorisation.
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The legacy of two decades of mass shootings in the United States has made it clear that media sensationalism can be a significant motivating factor in these attacks.
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Further, the blunders too often are caused not by circumstance, but by newsroom cultures that too often thrill to sensationalism and the obsessed drive for clicks and ratings.
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In this age of sensationalism and hype, such an in-depth study of a man and his evolution, written with respect, shock and bewilderment, is to be applauded.
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This overarching fact negates any real meaning this C.A.C. notice might have in terms of truly curbing the very real problem of sensationalism and corruption in China's media.
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Mirabella-Davis, whose crew was largely made up of women, avoids pure body-horror sensationalism as he traces Hunter's need for control to a trauma in her past.
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But in reality, juicy lies spread further than boring truths, and plenty of "news" outlets are financially incentivized to share sensationalism and whatever keeps their team in power.
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Publishers with higher ratings will get priority in users' news feeds, a move that the company says will cut down on "sensationalism, misinformation and polarization" in the media.
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Phelps is so focused on her combination of chic malaise and sensationalism that she doesn't give the actors anything human to play, or anything witty to play with.
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If you look hard enough, however, you'll find work that transcends sensationalism and locates essential ideas about life and death that apply to either side of any border.
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Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled other changes to the Facebook News Feed in the past two months to fight sensationalism and prioritize posts from friends and family.
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Already, there was "significant media coverage, sensationalism, the development of anti-Lyme vaccine groups ... who urged withdrawal of the vaccine from the market," Poland explained in his 2011 article.
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WILSON: YEAH, GREAT AND SO DO I. AND I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU THE SENSATIONALISM OF TELLING YOU EXACTLY WHO, BUT IT IS THE LONGEST STANDING BOARD MEMBERS.
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But while that series has its charms, its reliance on sensationalism that no longer seems as sensational has made it age the most poorly of Bochco's well-known series.
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Zuckerberg is "so worried" about "sensationalism in media" After months of categorically denying Facebook's fake news problem or journalistic responsibility, Zuckerberg is suddenly concerned about people being well-informed.
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YouTube is going to have more success addressing the issues of misinformation, toxic content, and radicalization on its platform if it stops ignoring the realities of sensationalism in media.
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" In his review of Mourner, The New York Times's Ben Brantley noted, "What makes this production so unsettling isn't any 'it could happen here'(or 'is happening here') sensationalism.
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And I am the first to say that many of these wounds are self-inflicted, the product of too many years of bias, sensationalism, superficiality, elitism, mistakes and misjudgments.
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"I feel like this is sensationalism, and it's unfortunate, because it takes away from a balanced and important discussion on risks and side effects," he said of the study.
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And while mass shootings make up less than 1 percent of gun deaths in the United States, extensive media coverage and sensationalism exacerbate the portrayal of these horrific acts.
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While "Nightcrawler" delivered its bludgeoning lecture on TV sensationalism about four decades too late, "Roman J. Israel, Esq." goes oddly easy on the cruel bureaucracy of the legal system.
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We recently started reducing sensationalism in News Feed by taking this into account for pieces of content, and going forward signals like this will identify sensational publishers as well.
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But the aim isn't mockery or glib sensationalism, or the routine fusion of the laughable and the grotesque that has been a staple of Hollywood cool since the mid-1990s.
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Not because it was less true, but because the media is exhibiting the same counterproductive sensationalism in the context of the election as it does in the context of terrorism.
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They are balancing the requirements of covering breaking news and conveying reality, however disturbing, with the desire to avoid sensationalism and respect the boundaries of victims, survivors and their families.
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Although in vitro is Latin for "in glass," the term "test tube baby" is a bit of media sensationalism that, in my opinion, isn't doing any of us any favors.
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The curators do a good job of recognizing this complexity, by hand-picking only a small number of memorials to explore in-depth, thus toning down the potential for sensationalism.
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He acknowledges that social media companies have not done enough to promote high-quality content, but he also blames publishers for amping up sensationalism in order to increase their traffic.
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The algorithm, it appears, will now take "signals" like that into account in order to both reduce "sensationalism" in people's news feeds and identify the publishers responsible for that content.
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Obviously, the fake news issue is unavoidable for Zuckerberg, although he seemed to prefer to focus on something he calls "sensationalism" and ridding the world of it in favor of agreement.
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Obviously, the fakes news issue is unavoidable for Zuckerberg, although he seemed to prefer to focus on something he calls "sensationalism" and ridding the world of it in favor of agreement.
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Although I attempted to curb this sensationalism in my own reporting, two of the Biosphere's architects felt as though I hadn't gone far enough and reached out to correct the record.
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Right-leaning reporters and editors spoke about their relative youth and inexperience and the need to professionalize and move on from the sensationalism that initially helped them attract readers. http://bit.
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Experts agree that it is an interesting jumping off point for an area desperately in need of more research — and provide a word of caution in face of fear and sensationalism.
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Those publishing content flagged as misinformation or false news may be ruled ineligible to profit from Facebook, as would creators of clickbait and sensationalism, according to the rules seen by Reuters.
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Spin and its sibling, sensationalism, have always been with us, from Homer spinning barbaric Greeks as the good guys in The Iliad, to Suetonius giving the Caesars the National Enquirer treatment.
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Outrage discourse involves efforts to provoke emotional responses, (especially anger, fear, and moral indignation) from the audience through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, patently inaccurate information, and belittling ridicule of opponents.
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And Northern journalists sometimes veered into sensationalism when covering the Klan's acts, a habit that made it harder for Americans to distinguish between genuine accounts of Klan savagery and fictional ones.
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The mayor is desperate to avoid the sensationalism that inundated Perugia a decade ago during the long trial of Amanda Knox, an American college student accused, and ultimately exonerated, of murder.
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While we have more work to do on information diversity and misinformation, I am even more focused on the impact of sensationalism and polarization, and the idea of building common understanding.
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We may never know the truth, but Shepherd and Smith both proposed similar conclusions: that the beast was the product of actual wolf attacks, scavenged bodies, and good old-fashioned sensationalism.
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While the amusement park setting enables Hand to ramp up the tension with a toolbox of strange and creepy people and places to play with, she never falls prey to pointless sensationalism.
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Conscious of its historical burden and bound by its political system to put moderate, consensus-oriented coalitions into power, Germany is unusually immune to populist sensationalism compared with many of its neighbours.
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"This is of course a tragedy and shows what can happen when judges believe some of the electrocution mythology and media sensationalism surrounding electrical weapons," spokesman Steve Tuttle said in an email.
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For Mr. Hernandez, who also goes by the name Tekashi69, it was reversed: Gang affiliations lent authenticity to a rap career rooted more in sensationalism than in biography or in raw talent.
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His team took a page out of the Trump playbook on Monday, blaming the media for "sensationalism" about the meetings and saying they would not be about sexual assault but about education.
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When I spoke to Hugo Caselles-Dupré, a machine learning PhD student and one-third of Obvious, over the phone, he chalked this characterization up to "sensationalism" and "clickbait" in the media.
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"While we have more work to do on information diversity and misinformation, I am even more focused on the impact of sensationalism and polarization, and the idea of building common understanding," he wrote.
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They might have had in mind Facebook's January decision to prioritize "trustworthy" news in its feed of social media posts, using member surveys to identify high-quality outlets and fight sensationalism and misinformation.
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Whenever a societal problem becomes a national obsession, some adult will write a book about it for teenagers; usually the result is a Go Ask Alice–style stew of fearmongering and breathless sensationalism.
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They could have installed the two photo grids side-by-side, but that would have skewed our impression of the artists' actions, emphasizing the striptease's sensationalism rather than its ramifications as a social construct.
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Technology is surely advancing at a rapid rate, and in today's click-driven media environment, sensationalism sells, but just because tech can replace a human worker doesn't mean we're always going to want that.
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" Stein said the Green Party supports "legitimate inquiry into any illegal activity in our elections" but warned against "the politicization, sensationalism and collapse of journalistic standards that has plagued media coverage of the investigation.
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By fixing this incentive problem in our services, we believe it'll create a virtuous cycle: by reducing sensationalism of all forms, we'll create a healthier, less polarized discourse where more people feel safe participating.
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Then there's our infatuation, which Lara points to, for all things melodrama, extending far beyond the cliché of the telenovela; it's a kind of sensationalism that shares qualities with Britain's affinity for bleak humor.
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Akerman's version of a crime documentary is unlike anything you'll find on Netflix today, spurning sensationalism and morbid rubbernecking in favor of careful reconstruction and meditation on the murder and the circumstances around it.
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I worry about these and we have studied them extensively, but I also worry there are even more powerful effects we must mitigate around sensationalism and polarization leading to a loss of common understanding.
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Born in Soweto just months before the 1956 "Treason Trial" of Nelson Mandela and more than 150 others, Mofokeng gained prominence for his photographic essays of everyday black life that favored intimacy over sensationalism.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Federal Judge Blocks New Ban on Travel to U.S." (front page, March 16): The continuing saga of President Trump's travel bans beautifully illustrates the difference between sensationalism and governing.
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With the issue's design, we wanted to visualize the intersection of traditional news and sensationalism by referencing the established look and feel of newspapers contrasted with the colorful, eye-grabbing design favored by tabloids.
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Per Zuckerberg, the reasoning behind the changes is to start to address Facebook's major problems with facilitating the spread of misinformation across the internet: There's too much sensationalism, misinformation, and polarization in the world today.
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In a discussion that explored the consistent media sensationalism of women rappers as opposed to respect for the craft, she pointed out that it comes down to a fundamental dismissal of women's presence in rap.
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But with polarization and sensationalism rampant and tearing apart society, Facebook has settled on a policy that it may try to uphold freedom of speech, but users are not entitled to amplification of that speech.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Online quiz shows that have surged in popularity in China must not promote extravagance or sensationalism and should instead spread healthy, beneficial knowledge, the country's media and publication regulator said in a notice.
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There was at last clear evidence to support a notion of privacy as a social good rather than an individual right — and, finally, a way to talk about why privacy matters without recourse to sensationalism.
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"It was a story in yesterday's Politico ... on a conference call we had with our donors by a reporter who loves sensationalism and doesn't like to do the hard work of reporting," he said Friday.
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Dog lovers in particular should be warned that they will never un-see what's shown there, but the film remains fascinating for its sensationalism, its possible staging and the sarcastic counterpoint of its voice-over.
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"By taking steps like this to improve News Feed, we're able to surface more stories that people find informative and reduce the spread of problematic links such as clickbait, sensationalism and misinformation," Mosseri wrote Friday.
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He's traded in the tabloid sensationalism of emotion, outrage, anger and dripped-out intrigue over coming decisions, and has peeled off stinging attacks on political rivals, acting as the ringmaster of his own news circus.
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So if anything, the one thing Westworld's depressing orgy gets right is that it's the perfect encapsulation of Westworld — and HBO's — general portrayal of sex: dull background noise wrapped in a thin veneer of sensationalism.
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And in Mexico City, the reaction has been mostly laughs, but, while comedy surely has a place as protest against the times, the mock ad has also inevitably inflated the sensationalism of the Trump phenomenon.
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"It is unacceptable that the most popular Brazilian festival, which has the admiration and respect of our sector, should stage a show of sensationalism and unfounded attacks," Brazil's Association of Cattle Breeders said in a statement.
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"I worry about these and we have studied them extensively, but I also worry there are even more powerful effects we must mitigate around sensationalism and polarization leading to a loss of common understanding," wrote Zuckerberg.
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" LG: I mean, if that's not fake news … then also, from that same article in Politico, which I recommend people read, they note how sensationalism has always sold well: "During the Gilded Age, yellow journalism flourished.
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Cable television imposed a new kind of pressure on the broadcast networks, forcing them to forgo the serious, fact-based news that was the staple of objective, nonpartisan professional journalism in favor of eye-grabbing sensationalism.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will prioritize "trustworthy" news in its feed of social media posts, using member surveys to identify high-quality outlets and fight sensationalism and misinformation, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.
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Facebook said in January that at the end of 2017 time spent by users had fallen by about 50 million hours a day, after changes designed to reduce passive video watching and stem the spread of sensationalism.
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"There's a bit of sensationalism around the threat of drones for this one event, but in general the threat is something new that all sorts of public events and venues need to start thinking about," said Jordan.
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SVU, now in its 18th season, is a holdover from the old guard of network TV. It feels retro, and still has a reputation for being shlocky and depressing, a show that wallows in cable news sensationalism.
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Neither of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination, who debate tonight, provides the bombast and sensationalism of the Republican candidates, especially the Republican front-runner, so ratings-hungry, shock-addicted television networks give them little coverage.
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" In February 2017, Wikipedians made a similar call for Daily Mail citations—that the publication would no longer be cited in articles as fact, due to its "reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication.
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Ghost stories, specifically, took a few decades to disappear from newspapers, fizzling out in the mid-20th century with the rise of a different standard of journalism: Objectivity and evenhandedness took the place of sensationalism and scandal.
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In this peculiar piece of sci-fi sensationalism, Frank Grillo plays Mark, a tough Los Angeles cop, now suspended from the force, whom we first see springing his ne'er-do-well adult son, Trent, from the hoosegow.
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"These scandalous and mendacious assumptions are driven by sensationalism and we totally refute these outrageous false allegations in the strongest possible way," a spokesperson for Deripaska told the AP in an email soon after Navalny's video was launched.
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Rather than acting as a refugee, Azzam negates Weiwei's sensationalism and amazing moral blindness, resisting any attempt at sentimentalizing the plight faced by asylum seekers as they make the often perilous journey in search of safety and solitude.
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"Today I'm sharing our second major update this year: to make sure the news you see, while less overall, is high quality," Zuckerberg wrote, decrying the "sensationalism, misinformation and polarization" that Facebook had an outsized hand in creating.
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Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) has been our sinister tour guide through the labyrinthine relationships of Washington, D.C. Five seasons later, the series has lost some of its sensationalism: At times, the show pales in comparison to the news.
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The public is presented with information by media that invariably takes a side based on the three furthest things from the pillars of sound journalism: sensationalism, dishonesty and an ideological tilt while being hopelessly pious in the process.
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As was clear in the news coverage and the public outrage, critics were troubled by Paul's failure to consider his responsibility to his audience, to show more dignity as a video maker, and to choose sensitivity over sensationalism.
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"The distribution of images of criminal acts, as a form of advocating crime involving sensationalism, viciousness, mockery and morbidity, causes revictimization, banalizes violence, and threatens the dignity, privacy and identity of victims and their families," the group said.
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When Gawande compares the collapse of the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River, in 1967, to a life-threatening ruptured spleen requiring emergency surgery, he is pointing out the nation's insatiable appetite for sensationalism over quiet, reflective progress.
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In short, in contrast to media sensationalism, when it comes to the opioid crisis, I'm going to keep trying to find the truth – in the hope of designing the best policies to set millions of troubled Americans free.
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To publish "The Last Girl" right now, in the United States, means there are tricky issues of sensationalism to navigate; in a threatening climate of Islamophobia, Muslims of all kinds are vilified for the actions of one group.
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In addition to exploiting every possible point of cultural tension, from racism to sexism to xenophobia, Anonymous successfully harnessed and weaponized sensationalism, engendered by an emergent click-based web economy where the shrillest coverage generated the greatest advertising revenue.
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As these young scholars pointed out, especially in Joyce Ladner's landmark 1973 anthology, ''The Death of White Sociology,'' a number of the books produced by the First Chicago School did, despite their best intentions, traffic in sensationalism and stereotypes.
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But that doesn't explain why Facebook chose an outlet known for sensationalism and misinformation in the first place — and as Facebook News matures, kicking off a site like Breitbart might cause more controversy than never including it at all.
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This would require changes beyond political parties themselves, as well as a real change in the way the media engages with politics -- moving away from the lazy sensationalism that the excitement around a far-right candidate makes so easy.
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That made them safe and pleasurable: Books like The Hunger Games worked because they amplified cultural fears about capitalism and imperialism and celebrity culture and the sensationalism of violence to an enormous degree, and then shot arrows at them.
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Dog lovers in particular should be warned that they will never be able to un-see what is shown there, but the film remains fascinating for its sensationalism, its possible staging and the sarcastic counterpoint of its voice-over.
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But far from trafficking in sensationalism, "Harrogate" probes the damaged psyche that leaves Patrick in evident free-fall, occupying a dark recess of the soul that exists beyond vision, to co-opt an image from Ms. Ridgeway's final speech.
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"Three hours in the dark with a giant, angry ape should leave you feeling battered and exhausted, but 'King Kong' is as memorable for its sweetness as for its sensationalism," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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But in its sensationalism, the tale of EVZIO lays bare many of the challenges for fixing the Byzantine, distorting system that allows a life-saving drug to see its price surge 600 percent during this time of most desperate need.
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People like Alex Hardiman, the head of Facebook news products and an alum of The New York Times, started to recognize that Facebook had long helped to create an economic system that rewarded publishers for sensationalism, not accuracy or depth.
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Ms. Morisseau is less interested in igniting the sensationalism for which her plot would seem to be wired than in rendering lives that, even in crisis, retain their quotidian flow, because life, after all, has a way of going on.
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The press has always trafficked in sensationalism in order to attract eyeballs, but now everyone can record disasters and death in real time on their phones, and everyone else can share those videos in an outpouring of outrage and grief.
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It was this commitment to camp and the occult that was the true spirit (no pun intended) of the show and brought a level of sensationalism to the series that excited the fan base beyond the typical soap opera programming.
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And, let's be real, we simply cannot trust network executives and producers to be responsible without any outside pressure: they profit from the sensationalism, racist mythologies and violence these shows promote, and there are no incentives for them to change.
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Analysts had wondered about the resilience of the world's largest social media network, which is making changes to its products to deter foreign influence campaigns like ones that it says Russia has carried out and to stem the spread of sensationalism.
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They follow the template established by the online videos and HBO segments but shift away from foreign crisis zones and sensationalism ("Interview With a Cannibal") toward subjects and production styles that would be at home on the Travel Channel, Bravo or MTV.
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If that's true — and I'm not sure it is — then this discussion of what the media thinks of candidates will come to prove quaint, and the only biases that really matter will prove to be the ones towards ratings, conflict, and sensationalism.
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After the titillating "sugar rush" these Democrats get from the sensationalism of using naughty words, there does not appear to be any substance behind it aside from projecting some sort of "authenticity" for speaking in the same way voters angry at Washington do.
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But Pulitzer also engaged in the kind of sensationalism that led to the term "yellow journalism," a phrase inspired by the "Yellow Kid" comic strip that appeared in both Pulitzer's newspaper and that of its chief rival, William Randolph Hearst's New York Morning Journal.
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I've also focused obsessively on this story because of the kind of inaccurate sensationalism that pervades New York's profile of Greenwald, such as him dismissing a plea agreement that provides solid evidence that Russians offered "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of emails.
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Similarly, Mr. Cotto, the police director, said the term "narco-gang" was "sensationalism" and could be misinterpreted as suggesting that Salvadoran street gangs were working directly with the Gulf Cartel or the Zetas in the transshipment of drugs from South America to the United States.
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" Mr. Cosby's wife, Camille, released a scathing statement accusing the district attorney of being "heinously and exploitively ambitious," the judge of "overtly and arrogantly collaborating with the district attorney," and some news organizations of "greedily selling sensationalism at the expense of a human life.
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In a horror movie, the monster is inevitably the center of interest, and once the first body in the motel falls, "Detroit" begins to trade its vivid sense of nuance — especially present in its delicate observation of Fred and Larry's friendship — for bluntness and sensationalism.
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"Those who share content that repeatedly violates our Content Guidelines for Monetization, share clickbait or sensationalism, or post misinformation and false news may be ineligible or may lose their eligibility to monetize," wrote Nick Grudin, vice president of media partnerships, in a blog post Wednesday.
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I suspect by the end of the week, the general public will have moved on from the sensationalism of two notable hip-hop figures using strategic tactics to bully and mute both the survivors, and one of the most powerful Black women in the country.
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There are realistic scenes depicting busts for alcohol and foreign DVDs, illegal parties that are raided with fatal consequences, and heavy metal sessions in cattle barns, proving again that when the reality is so bizarre there is really no need for sensationalism when covering this topic.
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" Following the 2017 release of Rivera's intimate tell-all memoir, Sorry Not Sorry, the rapper accused the star of sensationalism and deceit with his song "No More Interviews," featuring the lyrics "And you know the funny thing about it is my ex wanna write a tell-all.
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Stones and High were driven to make the book not to monopolize on the renewed interest in 90s NYC culture and fashion, but to create a yearbook of their youth, focusing on the actual dynamics of their tightly knit group of skaters—and not the sensationalism.
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This being Musk, who is well-known for sensationalism and spectacle—and with the New York Times reporting that Tesla is expected to announce a first-quarter loss this Wednesday when it is already burning through billions, giving the event curious timing—there's a lot to unpack.
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But the mass appeal of red-state sensationalism feels like a contemporary outgrowth, in that half the country really does believe that the other half is crazy, and while that craziness might not be good for the republic, it does make for great B-movie entertainment.
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I tried to stay away from sensationalism in this book, so when I got to the end of this thing I was like, all right, I can't really have a happy ending, so I just started to think about a future in which this could happen.
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In the case of "Line of Duty," whose newest six-episode season comes to Acorn TV on Monday (joining the previous four), millions of viewers apparently like a cocktail of four parts forensics to one part action, with a twist of sensationalism and a splash of melodrama.
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The work can't be separated from its sensationalism, but it's also a challenge to engage critically with art so closely tied to the artist's biography, and, in this case, the incurable illness that left him blind but also serves as the conceptual foundation for his work.
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The series isn't devoid of a sense of sensationalism — the location cards are heavily stylized, and there are intermittent montages that lend to a sense of breeziness — but the performances anchor it in a way that involves the viewer rather than allowing for a completely passive viewing experience.
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Even though it was produced by an American car magazine that's very much invested in viewers owning combustion engines, Autonomy never veers into sensationalism or fear-mongering, even as it introduces muddy concepts like large-scale job loss and the innumerable deaths and injuries humans face on the road.
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It's a highly stylized, incredibly ambitious film that doesn't quite hit its marks, but it tries hard to illustrate how the modern appetite for sensationalism and spectacle leads to both celebrity and self-destruction — and Portman's performance as a strung-out pop star is appropriately hard-bitten and manic.
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Facebook's research shows that these links "tend to include low quality content such as clickbait, sensationalism, and misinformation," so showing these links less prominently could improve the quality of what people see on the social network even if this change doesn't analyze the specific content behind the links.
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"Casting JonBenet" is filled with such ritualistic gestures that signal the movie has things of merit to say about assorted well-trod themes: identity as performance; performance as identity; the reproduction of gossip; the impact of media sensationalism; the sexualization of young girls; and that biggie, the United States.
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"We are living in a time where accusations alone have the power of conviction," Curtis Hill said, lamenting that he had not been afforded due process and blaming a media "based on sensationalism nurturing an appetite for scandal" that can be satisfied only by the "complete destruction" of the accused.
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In addition to apologizing and making reassuring noises about the sanctity of user privacy, Zuckerberg should make some clear commitments: to protect Facebook's users from microtargeted propaganda; to use his algorithms to promote truth over reckless sensationalism; to prevent bad actors from using his tools to sow discord and bigotry.
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This ethical dilemma of the VR — the sense of alienation that is elemental to the medium — can lead to sensationalism or spectacle, but in Carne y Arena, this is supplemented by the face-to-face monitors of the participants who bravely recount their personal histories at the end of the installation.
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Sure, there's a little bit of sensationalism and breathless reporting as the videos go viral, but they also serve as an important reminder to find better ways to lock down your phone, as these devices continue to play an even more centralized role in nearly every aspect of our daily lives.
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What this example shows and the other examples show, all of these outcomes that many people condemn as being hateful or grotesque, it's all reflective of the fact that our system doesn't work, that our system is not set up for humane engagement, it's set up for hot takes and clickbait and sensationalism.
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Since the company first required news providers to register, Facebook's Rob Leathern said, it had "built more controls to help prevent politically motivated actors looking to use false news or sensationalism as weapons, and in September, we announced a news indexing process designed to more clearly and consistently identify pages posting news on Facebook".
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"I think she's just saying this kind of bull because she wants sensationalism and she's working for Fox and she needs a job and she's making a check," said Hubert, 60, who also recently leveled criticism at Jada Pinkett Smith for planning to skip the Oscars over this year's lack of diversity among nominees.
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And they have some other principles like that that try to address what people hate the most about digital news, like repetitive coverage, clickbait headlines, sensationalism that is traffic-driven, the fact that stories explode, you hear about nothing else for three days and then you don't hear about them again, things like that.
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And while social issues were the focus, sensationalism was never excluded, such as a 1942 photo by Alan Fisher of a man eagerly guzzling booze from a hose at a 1942 beer bust, a chaotic 1941 shoot-out captured by Max Peter Haas, or a 1948 image of a car that crashed into a Bronx home by Sheldon Gottesman.
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He added that the size of the country meant that "potential financial opportunity was less attractive" to fake news pranksters looking to make a quick buck from sensationalism – as was seen in the run up to the U.S. election last year, in which Macedonian teenagers catapulted themselves into cash by capitalizing on an appetite for sensationalist stories about the campaign.
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Probably the most important thing we've done in news, which is taking down distribution across the board for news partners and news publishers, is that we've really taken very strong action on clickbait, on sensationalism, and then we did meaningful social interactions; really getting back to the heart of what Facebook was, which was really a place to connect with family and friends.
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Nick Pisa, then a tabloid reporter for the Daily Mail who had a direct hand in painting some of the worst portraits of Knox — including nicknaming her "Foxy Knoxy" — presents himself, in his Amanda Knox interviews, as the worst stereotype of a bygone tabloid hound hungry to race his way to the front page, regardless of whom his sensationalism hurts.
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The Guggenheim, which had subtly promoted the show's sensationalism — "If you can't survive" seeing the Huang piece, Alexandra Munroe, the senior curator for Asian art, said in a recent Artnet interview, "don't bother seeing the rest of the show" — abruptly announced that it was dropping the three disputed works because of "explicit and repeated threats of violence," of unspecified origins, to its staff.
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Students should look for the following: • explicit or implied reasons given within the articles to justify the roundups• clues within the writing itself (such as the words used to describe Japanese-Americans, language that reveals bias or an outdated perspective, or sensationalism) that provide insight about contemporary attitudes• the type of sources for the article (for example, does the article rely exclusively on government sources?
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By March, the brothers — who'd gone on a spending spree in the wake of their parents' demise — had been charged with the murders, and the case was enveloped by sensationalism as the trial was broadcast on Court TV. (Both brothers were eventually sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.) This two-hour documentary re-examines the case through interviews with Lyle Menendez as well as with assorted family members and friends.
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