sensationalist:
(plural: ‘sensationalists‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person who talks, writes or shows somebody’s personal or love affairs or crimes and political scandals, giving them undue importance by adding untrue information, to gain public attention,
sensationalists (news reporters trying to make a sensational scoop out a simple issue
Wong Wei, our neighbour for over ten years, is a sensationalist, always trying to get neighbours’ attention by telling them some weird Chinese stories in which souls of the wicked are taken away by dragons.
According our philosophy professor, if war-mongers and media are sensationalists exposing the red side of wars, so are the charity and religious organisations as they too show photos of sensational battle casualties and write articles about women and children being molested and killed in their handouts and TV ads asking for donations to do something to set the miserable lives of those war victims.
The author of this website sometimes wonders if the ‘alleged’ UFO victims, those who say they were abducted by aliens in their spaceships and then brought back to the earth after doing some tests on them and crop circle creators and believers are a sort of sensationalists who like to get overnight public attention!
