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Word Formation 37 Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits in the spaces. THE BIRTH OF SENSATIONALISM At the time of the 1) of President John F Kennedy, television news was still very much in its 2) as far as presenting such 3). live events was concerned. For the first time, the people of an entire nation sat before their screens in horror as details of the attack and subsequent death of their President unfolded before their 4) eyes. Unfortunately, far from presenting the events and their implications with professional detachment and 5) , the various broadcasters involved allowed their 6) to be usurped by inappropriate displays of personal emotion. With hindsight, such a loss of that all- important detachment can be understood and even forgiven, given the fact that the medium was faced with such an 7). act of calculated violence at a time when the nation as a whole had never experienced such an event within the television age. For the following 25 years, television news 8) reported on many tragedies. It was not until the disaster of PanAm Flight 103 over the small Scottish village of Lockerbie in 1988 that the news media were again galvanised to such an extent. More 9). though, the Lockerbie disaster also highlighted a far more disturbing trend in television news' handling of the 10). aftermath: the unrestrained use of sensationalistic reporting. ASSASSIN INFANT SHOCK BELIEVE CLEAR OBJECT EXPECT ROUTINE WORRY HORROR​