Sensationalism and Sensationalizing in the News Media

Jezebel Refuses to Show Leaked Rihanna Abuse Photo

On the evening of February 19, preeminent gossip blog TMZ ran a mysteriously leaked photograph of Rihanna purportedly from the...

WHY IS THE MAN WITH THE "WORLD'S LONGEST EAR HAIR" PAIRED WITH THIS YOUNG BOY WITH A HEART DEFECT? The...

Either Boston has run out of news or the media has given up fighting the death of print. The Boston...

You read the headlines: CNN blares "Pirates vow to kill U.S., French sailors." It is certainly exciting. A "vow" of...

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker series: Art Science Research Laboratory's imediaethics.org and SavageMinds.org is...

A recent article by the New York Daily News on a little-known disease spread by raccoons left some readers rabid...

The translation of the headline for Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper’s special report on the H1N1 virus in North America,...

With wall to wall news stories about pop legend Michael Jackson's death, MSNBC and CNN News still feel the need...

Is this a new low for CNN.com and Michael Jackson coverage? CNN needs no facts nor fact-checking when they talk...