Sensationalism
"For it is one of the most dangerous things on earth genuinely to surprise anybody. If you make any sentient creature jump, you render it by no means improbable that it will jump on you. But the leaders of this [sensationalist] movement have no moral courage or immoral courage; their whole method consists in saying, with large and elaborate emphasis, the things which everybody else says casually, and without remembering what they have said."
~ G.K Chesterton
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Sensationalism is one of the most widespread journalism techniques present in the modern world. It consists of the over exaggeration of a topic in order to make it appeal to the general populous. At the time, newspapers were often considered as stoic pieces of literature and many had trouble making a profit. Joseph Pulitzer, especially in the New York World, often focused on sensationalist, emotional pieces to great success. His battles in writing with William Hearst initiated the evolution of journalism to a more appealing, if not honest, field of work.
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