News Sensationalism

To start off with, I do believe that sensationalism of our news does hurt the credibility of stories. Come on writers, if you can't come up with an interesting lead to your story so you pump up the hell out of it to make it worth reading, was the story really worth writing in the first place? My definition of news sensationalism is simply this: journalists hyping a story that doesn't need to be hyped. Like I just stated previously, if you can't find a credible news story, or one that doesn't deserve to be in your paper, don't write it. Find something worth covering. Some great examples in current news: there is the obvious Anna Nicole Smith thing going on which is ridiculous. I'm sick of hearing about it. A sports example: the steroids issue in baseball and the linking of all the big name players. Not that I don't acknowledge the fact that they did use them but damn, how much longer must this go on?!!! Whatever happened to good reporting when the stories told themselves and it wasn't the journalists building up to something that belongs in a freaking tabloid?!!!!