scandalmongering

Gendered insults, derogatory epithets and scandalmongering have vitiated the political atmosphere.

" Nick Joaquin wrote: "After the blow had fallen on the nation, Ninoy's words would be recalled with a pang ndash no longer as delicious scandalmongering but as an oracle's auguries that, alas, went unheeded." Martial Law In The Philippines: My Storyby Aquilino Q.

In the past decade, the view has prevailed that spin and scandalmongering win support.

Indeed, the furor is sometimes drummed up by their own scandalmongering.

And instead of arguing that purely literary fictions emerged from evasive actions, from the search for alibis, we might argue that stories became more elaborate and interesting in themselves and narrative technique became more 'novelistic' because writers became more intent on effective political scandalmongering" (103-104).

The McCanns' lawyer accused certain sections of the press of engaging in "scandalmongering" that he described as "inhumane".

THE lawyer for Madeleine McCann's parents accused sections of the media of "inhumane" scandalmongering yesterday as the couple launched a defamation action against a Portuguese newspaper.

None of those scandalmongering moments could match the sheer disorienting power of the sudden shot of a painting--Rubens's Flight into Egypt, hanging in Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian--in Pedro Costa's Juventude em marcha (Colossal Youth).

It's all too easy to make such a juicy connection, but that's the scandalmongering media age we live in, an age that the play's protagonist, Marge--a middle-aged hippie and the other half of the lesbian affair--finds bewildering.