Newspapers over-dramatize just to sell newspapers. Journalists chase sensational stories because they think it'll sell papers, not because it's an important story. These are clear indictments of press credibility. They're not unreasonable viewpoints, given the fact that the public has reduced its own cognitive dissonance by ascribing a commercial motive to much of what they don't like in the media. The viewpoints represent a pervasive accusation that newspapers are not employing journalistic judgment exclusively to build the news report, but allowing personal or corporate objectives to shape or flavor it.
Nothing's too sleazy to omit.
Newspaper editors' judgments about if and how and where to play these kinds of inherently sensational stories on the pages of the newspaper must always be carefully made, with full realization that they've likely already had heavy television coverage. Most important is the public's charge of over-covering inherently sensational stories is often in direct conflict with their overwhelming demand for newspapers to focus on local news. 74 percent of U.S. adults tell us that they want local news every day. Television is overwhelmingly seen as the dominant source of national and world news. Other comments suggest that many journalists also agree that resources spent on sensational national stories that the public doesn't want in their newspaper could be redirected to giving them what they do want - local news.