Sentence examples for journalistic stunt from inspiring English sources

This was not just a journalistic stunt.

She saw her British visa as a golden opportunity, not to escape Iran but to pull off her best journalistic stunt ever.

— Atul Gawande, "The Cost Conundrum" (June 1 , 2009 She saw her British visa as a golden opportunity, not to escape Iran but to pull off her best journalistic stunt ever.

And, of course, it turns out that the suckers the saps in this journalistic stunt are not the small-town family, not the readers, but the high-powered know-it-alls.Maybe we owe our fullest tributes to Ranald MacDougall, who wrote the script from a play by Eileen Tighe and Graeme Lorimer, which apparently was never produced.

"Wide Awake," a journalistic stunt-a-thon full of deadpan-funny adventures, had its origins in its author's real problem.

Esquire's history does brim with journalistic stunts.

Mr. Jacobs, an Esquire writer and a contributor to The New York Times, is the author of four books and is best known for his journalistic stunts, like s his 2008 comic best-seller, "The Year of Living Biblically," in which he attempted to follow the literal decrees of the Scriptures while living in New York.

When Rivera, who had been in training, fell the first day, he did what seasoned observers said was a "perfect front roll". Now, for summer amusement, think up participatory journalistic stunts for "20/20's" other stars, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters.

Pushed along by bad reporting and outright journalistic promotion of a campaign stunt, the story of the voicemail recording of Jerry Brown discussing with advisors billionaire Meg Whitman's backing away from her supposed public pension reform imperatives in pursuit of a police union endorsement got a lot of attention.

"Speculation was rife after she raised the subject in an interview with Variety, the film magazine," continues the Times, "but her supposed candour was either a journalistic slip or a well-executed publicity stunt".

Another factor in the logs' shortfall as public spectacle is the fractionalization of the news media, to the point where even a stunt packaged as "news" can trump journalistic enterprise.