Why Does Such A Sensationalized Style Exist In Writing Today?
Is it because everything else is sensationalized?
Today, I was going to expand the Silent Sunday Post I’ve written for five years on my WordPress blog, The Apples in my Orchard. I was going to post my photo-only themed blog on the WordPress site and then add some text to it on this, my Medium page, hoping to please my followers on each site.
But that will have to wait a week or at least until later. I just ran across a popular blog that really sensationalized a personal story about a daughter sending her parents a scary text while away at college during her freshman year. While this blogger writes well, a lot of the pieces that are published are sensationalized in my opinion.
Is that part of “good” writing these days? I do see it as a popularly occurring trend. But I’m left unconvinced it is “good” writing. After a “hook” which is something used to grab the readers’ attention, does the rest of the article that follows have to be written in such a breathless and crisis-oriented tone? I don’t think so.
But most of our media today sensationalizes events and even occurrences during the course of reporting daily living. Over the last several years, I’ve had a hard time watching the evening news — especially the national news carried on…
