Sentence:  The magazine Time is not a journal that is given to <WSD>scaremongery</WSD>, but in its issue of the 3rd March, 1952, it reported the result of an investigation into television, as it affected children, by a committee of mothers. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of spreading alarming information that is either exaggerated or untrue in order to scare others.