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- noun Plural form of
sensationalist .
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29 March 2006 at 07:20 PM sorry! re 'sensationalists', I mean:
Say Pay Yuuugh 2006
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Can we start referring to the bulk of “journalists” as sensationalists instead?
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It is tempting to blame postmodernism, which has blurred the difference between drivel and truth; or the popularity of television-history, where no standards of veracity or scholarship apply; or the temptations aroused by vulgar sensationalists, who have made fortunes by proclaiming the peripeties of the Holy Grail and "proving" that the medieval Chinese discovered Rhode Island.
Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011
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Others look at government gridlock, and polarization, fanned by sensationalists in the media, and understandably grow cynical and question whether government can ever again do the big things it needs to do.
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Others look at government gridlock, and polarization, fanned by sensationalists in the media, and understandably grow cynical and question whether government can ever again do the big things it needs to do.
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Others look at government gridlock, and polarization, fanned by sensationalists in the media, and understandably grow cynical and question whether government can ever again do the big things it needs to do.
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Just be journalists instead of sensationalists for a change.
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MSM consists of stenographers and sensationalists who distort facts and provide no context.
Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary 2009
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I have a huge amount of respect for this man and hope he doesn't get eaten up by the evil sensationalists and paranoid ignorance in this country.
Steve King: Obama Would "Certainly Be Viewed As A Savior" To Al-Qaida 2009
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Yeah, you gotta watch out for those irresponsible sensationalists who spread the idea back in the 1970s that an ice age was likely in our immediate future.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Responses to the CRU E-mail Leaks 2009
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