The tabloids have achieved this by ponying up for sources (an absolute taboo in traditional journalistic ethics), digging up all the dirt possible, and then slapping on a sensational, truth-bending headline.
In inimitable Schlafly style, "A Choice Not an Echo" mixed fact, sensational accusations, commonsensical truths, and elaborate conspiracy theories into a compelling but evidently bogus narrative.
Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, Elizabeth Kolbert said the book "mixed fact, sensational accusations, commonsensical truths, and elaborate conspiracy theories into a compelling but evidently bogus narrative".
She was not a stalker, she was invited; she did not embellish, the truth is sensational enough.
Carole Kent Kneeland, vice president for news at KVUE-TV in Austin, Tex., and one of the first television news directors to de-emphasize sensational crime and introduce "truth tests" in news reports about political advertising, died on Monday at her home in Austin.
The truth was less sensational.
This headline is an example of the worst kind of sensational tabloidism; "never let the truth get in he way of a good headline".
As artist and academic Safdar Ahmed, a founding member of the project, explains, the project is meant to get to the human truths behind the sensational headlines of the daily news.
More than eight years later, the truth behind Alexander Litvinenko's sensational murder may finally emerge.
Now 58, Keeler has consistently said that successive governments have hushed up the truth of the sordid, sensational Profumo affair.
