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However, the press picked up on it and sensationalized the story.

It was a last sensation of those who had sensationalized everything.

It was these statistics that were so sensationalized in 1986.

"It's trying to sensationalize things that you can buy in any corner store."

Although he had to admit there was more to sensationalize than usual.

He also claimed the incident had been sensationalized by the media.

As a director, even at his most hyperbolic, he never sensationalized.

What was it slow news day and you had to sensationalize something for a headline?

The press has sensationalized this story to the point that people think the sky is falling.

"People who are looking for headlines or to sensationalize programs will do something of this nature without thinking it through," he said.

One review described its treatment of the subject as "slightly sensationalized."

And we know that the case is sensationalized enough to have made her a fleeting media star.

No story is too small to be tracked down and sensationalized."

"I think the articles sensationalized the problem and didn't show the kids who have gone on to college or the military."

At that time, he editorialized a series of news which sensationalized the public.

Some surviving committee members say the panel's efforts have been sensationalized by recent news reports.

However, certain media find ways to sensationalize and exaggerate an unusual story.

This drew some criticism that Norris was sensationalizing the case.

He mentally cursed her for trying to sensationalize an already terrible situation.

It was sensationalized in newspapers all across the country.

And, truthfully, I had already learned my lesson about trying to sensationalize things.

In any case, they say, the disturbances were distorted and sensationalized by reporters.

To call it a social club, he said, was to sensationalize it.

Images of the death camps were not sensationalized, however.

Daphne had done so much to sensationalize and escalate the situation.

I actually had every right to sensationalise that race in my head.

The value for these have been to sensationalise the system and the faults with the system.

Their urge to sensationalise every piece of writing they encounter does the writers a huge disservice.

'We don't need to sensationalise,' the producer told her wryly.

By succumbing to the temptation to sensationalise our argument, the Guardian is not encouraging the development of progressive policies.

'We are not out to sensationalise,' said independent producer Eleanor Stephens.

Controversy was met with the fact that they wanted to sensationalise the event and make a game out of an event that struck London.

'But we are not out to sensationalise.'

A local newspaper attempted to sensationalise the incident by stating that the passenger concerned was "almost thrown from the train" as the door "flew" open.

Caldwell insists that he is "instinctively pro-immigration" and conscious of the media tendency to "sensationalise stories against Muslims".

This led trans bloggers to worry that the show may sensationalise its lead's genitalia (why else specify "pre-op"?)

That's what it's like trying to tell the Guardian not to sensationalise - tilting at windmills......

The media tend to sensationalise violent crime even though a relatively small proportion of criminal offending involves murder or serious violence - in most years around 10%.

Dhody said "We didn't try to sensationalise it by making it more bling or costume-based.

The Society went through the records with great tenacity, suspecting that Price had exaggerated evidence to sensationalise events and to suggest supernatural causes for mundane phenomena.

Jamaicans complain that local newspapers sensationalise the violence, but in fact shoot-outs are so common that they often rate only a few lines on the inside pages.

Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams said we should have more science graduates writing science stories so we don't sensationalise them.

We want neither to play down nor sensationalise the problem. On the contrary, we need to exert constructive pressure and we see the decision as a chance, not a punishment.

Moore and Bissette chose Campbell as illustrator for his down-to-earth approach which gave the story a convincing realism and did not sensationalise the violence of the murders.

The report does not seek to sensationalise or exaggerate perceived dangers, but it does provide a useful framework to encourage public awareness of the risks involved and to provide practical remedies.

This is not the kind of problem that one wishes to sensationalise: we certainly do not want to put young people or their parents off taking advantage of the benefits of a united Europe.

People I spoke to on the march were protecting a pension of 2 - 8 K, rather than the theoretical extrapolation offered to sensationalise, by some 'I'm alreet Jack' above.

I very much doubt it's affected morale, but I do agree that current players shouldn't write books - they either say nothing, which robs the public, or they say something and the media sensationalise it.

The local media, especially the daily tabloid The New Paper, began to sensationalise homosexual activities with attention-grabbing headlines like 'Swimming Pool Perverts' or 'Homosexuals Pollute East Coast'.

The Telegraph also reported that former Thatcher PR adviser Tim Bell has dismissed the film, which he had not seen: "I can't be bothered to sensationalise this rubbish," he told the paper.