sensationalism

From sensational +‎ -ism.

sensationalism (countable and uncountable, plural sensationalisms)

1. The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.
2. (philosophy) A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.

• (epistemic doctrine): sensualism

• antisensationalism

• sensationalism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sensationalism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sensationalism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Sensationalism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)