Concept
Sensationalism
Overview
type of editorial tactic in mass media
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On one hand, thinking deprived of its normal course takes refuge in academic specialism, comparable in its way to what is called scholasticism. On the other hand, the physical agencies of publicity which exist in such abundance are utilized in ways which constitute a large part of the present meaning of publicity: advertising, propaganda, invasion of private life, the “featuring” of passing incidents in a way which…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
States what Sensationalism is.
But logical atomism was implicit even in this theory. Statements referring to empirical fact were mere quantitative summaries of particular instances. In the sensationalism which sprang from Hume (and which was left unquestioned by Kant as far as any strictly empirical element was concerned) the implicit particularism was made explicit. But the doctrine that sensations and ideas are so many separate existences was…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Names Sensationalism.
Thus the material and psychological conditions for a great intensity of organization have increased _pari passu_, but the basis of the whole development is scientific invention in the purely physical realm. Increased productivity has played its part, by making it possible to set apart more labour for propaganda, under which head are to be included advertisement, the cinema, the Press, education, politics, and…
Bertrand Russell, Icarus
Close in meaning to Sensationalism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Sensationalism
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of History of philosophy in Poland.