Citations:sensationalist

Attributive

• 2000, Mike Collett, UEFA to probe "sensationalist" media coverage of final[1]

  We must question the attitude of certain sections of the media when it comes to this type of sensationalist reporting.

• 2000, Cynthia Chavez Metoyer, Women and the State in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua‎^[2], page 42:

  The highly sensationalist newspaper became increasingly anti-Sandinista as the counterrevolution progressed. .

• 2004, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Media and the Path to Peace‎^[3], page 42:

  The world constructed by sensationalist journalism is an especially frightening.

Adjective

• 2005, Jess Nevins, Michael Moorcock, The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana‎^[4], page 462:

  The Newsagents' Publishing Company, or NPC, was responsible for many of the more sensationalist and gory penny dreadfuls, including The Dance of Death...

• 2004, Lawrence R. Velvel, Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam‎^[5], page 244:

  ... is usually too dumb, too lazy, too sensationalist, and too celebrity oriented to do the necessary work.

• 2004, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Media and the Path to Peace, page 152:

  The second is that the Israeli media environment is more sensationalist than the one in Jordan and this leads to a greater emphasis on drama.