sensationalism

The Times quotes one man who intends to vote for Trump who said, “’I think the media blows stuff out of proportion for sensationalism.’”

For decades, the American news media with its endless 24/7 coverage, sensationalism, traffic-chasing, and an “if it bleeds it leads” ethos has contributed to this problem instead of intervening against it.

In an hourlong chat, they discussed girlhood, violence and making a true-crime series that sidesteps sensationalism.

He added: "Their story, you may recall, was a sensation and was reported sensationally, but you do not deal in sensationalism."

He deflected a question about any possible deathbed confession by Simpson as an attempt to steer “from somber to the sensationalism and the amusement.”