Feeding Frenzy In Politics

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In Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (1991), Sabato criticized what he described as the media’s increasing focus on unflattering stories from the personal lives of politicians and candidates, corresponding to reduced coverage of serious political issues.


  1. In ecology, a feeding frenzy occurs when predators are overwhelmed by the amount of prey available. For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby sharks, such as the lemon shark, to enter into a feeding frenzy. This can cause the sharks to go wild, biting anything that moves, including each other or anything else within biting range.
  2. Mar 01, 2013 Feeding Frenzy Paul McMahon (Author) 'Feeding Frenzy' is one of those books that makes you think about something we all take for granted, food. It looks at the political system that keeps food production at the level it is now, and how the system needs to be changed and adapted to cope with the ever-increasing population.
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feed·ing frenzy

(fē′dĭng)n.
1. A period of intense or excited feeding, as by sharks.
2. Excited activity by a group, especially around a focal point: 'The media swirled and boiled around the newlyweds in a kind of all-out feeding frenzy'(James Kaplan).

feeding frenzy

n
1. (Biology) a phenomenon in which aquatic predators, esp sharks, become so excited when eating that they attack each other
2. a period of intense excitement over or interest in a person or thing: the media erupt into a feeding frenzy.
Feeding Frenzy In Politics

feed′ing fren`zy


n.
Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone esp. by the media.

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