What is another word for sensationalist?

Pronunciation: [sɛnsˈe͡ɪʃənəlˌɪst] (IPA)

Sensationalist refers to news or media that prioritizes shocking or emotional content over factual accuracy or informative value. Synonyms for sensationalist could include melodramatic, tabloid, exploitative, lurid, or exaggerated. Other terms that align with this idea of sensationalized reporting could be hyperbolic, sensational, or attention-grabbing. Sensationalist reporting aims to elicit strong reactions from audiences, whether positive or negative, rather than informing them with constructive and factual news. These synonyms are a reminder that journalism should aim to inform and educate rather than prioritize sensationalized content that diminishes its informative value.

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Usage examples for Sensationalist

The New York Times published a dispatch about three young ladies on Long Island who were trying a three-day fast, and the Times commented editorially to the effect that these young ladies were "the victims of a shallow and unscrupulous sensationalist."
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
He inherited to some extent the doctrine of the Cambridge Platonists and repudiated the sensationalist doctrine of Locke and the metaphysical method of Clarke.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
He was a pure sensationalist, except as above.
"Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian?"
John B. Remsburg

Famous quotes with Sensationalist

  • Not a single one of our ancient sources indicates that Jesus was married, let alone married to Mary Magdalene. All such claims are part of modern fictional reconstructions of Jesus' life, not rooted in the surviving accounts themselves. The historical approach to our sources may not be as exciting and sensationalist as fictional claims about Jesus (he kept a lover! he had sex! he made babies!), but there's something to be said for knowing what really happened in history, even if it is not as titillating as what happens in novels.
    Bart D. Ehrman
  • The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning; and the same ending ...
    Martin Amis

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