All news is sensationalist because ordinary people aren't interested in facts and in reality. Ordinary people want to be entertained, and sensationalism is a sure-fire way to do it. Today, no news organization on the planet can afford to be non-sensationalist because every organization is in competition with every other organization for eyeballs that can either be leveraged to generate revenues or leveraged to justify continued state funding. And as the noise level rises so too must the constant barrage of sensationalism grow ever-louder. Anything that would provide a hint of context, anything that would turn a story into less than purely black-or-white, is carefully omitted. News organizations can only survive by giving people what they want, and what they want is entertainment that makes them react emotionally. No thinking required, nor desired. We are the first civilization in human history to destroy itself in pursuit of ad revenues.