Sensationalism

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Sensationalism has changed totally the way newspapers are written, and and the way the news is reported on TV.

Sensationalism was the norm since the pamphleteers in the 18th Century. There was a period after WWII, especially with the advent of TV news, when the norm was to be bias-neutral, but that only lasted until the 80s. Limbaugh and Fox News began the reversion to biased-based news that had been the norm for two hundred years.

[ckelly78z]

Sensationalism went to the next level when the Weather Channel started naming Winter storms...You don't want to see Jim Cantore doing a clip on your street corner !