Someone who achieves a small amount of transient fame ( through, say, hype or mass media ) may become labeled a " B-grade celebrity ".

It is filled with precisely the kind of shrill hyperbole that Finkelstein rightly deplores in much of the current media hype over the Holocaust ; it is brimming with the same indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics and dubious contextualizations ; and it oozes with the same smug sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

Dawn Anderson of the Seattle fanzine Backlash recalled that by 1990 many locals had tired of the hype surrounding the Seattle scene and hoped that media exposure had dissipated.

This turn of events was a major surprise, as not only did the media hype Stefan as a franchise player, but hockey experts also considered Thrashers general manager Don Waddell to be a man with excellent scouting ability.

Patchen referred to " Ginsberg and Co ." and the media hype surrounding them as a " freak show.

There was a lot of media hype surrounding the event, and HBO televised both.

The media hype surrounding Crack's death is disputed by ATR.

They were christened the " The " bands by the media, and dubbed " The saviours of rock ' n ' roll ", leading to accusations of hype.

As an example of technology media hype, the company was once named as the Most important company in Silicon Valley in an Upside magazine editorial.

The event as a whole was critically acclaimed in the media for living up to the hype with a number of exciting fights that were featured on the televised card.

However, much of the media hype surrounded Gruden.

Postmarketing data were easily discounted as anecdotal and " media hype " by the US Army researchers and travel medicine practitioners.

After the hype surrounding the release of Be Here Now had started to wane, critical response to the band became calmer and more considered, leading to a media backlash.

Black Market Music did not receive the same level of long term recognition and media hype as Without You I'm Nothing did, but its peak sales outperformed those of its predecessor in both the UK and France.

Media circus is a colloquial metaphor, or idiom, describing a news event where the media coverage is perceived to be out of proportion to the event being covered, such as the number of reporters at the scene, the amount of news media published or broadcast, and the level of media hype.

A disco song which features future West End / Broadway star Sarah Brightman on lead vocal, it cashed in on the media hype surrounding the original Star Wars film.

Deviancy amplification spiral ( also simply called deviance amplification ) is a media hype phenomenon defined by media critics as a cycle of increasing numbers of reports on a category of antisocial behavior or some other " undesirable " event, leading to a moral panic.

" His " first encounter with media hype ," proved popular as he found himself " whisked off to San Diego and places and made a fuss of.

Their music also satirises gangsta rap by highlighting the disparity between the band's deliberately unglamorous image, and the media hype and glamour usually associated with gangsta rap.

Despite the fact that the Cryonics Institute was not involved in the case, the media hype spurred the state of Michigan to place CI under a " Cease and Desist " order for six months.

However after much initial media hype, not much has been heard of the idea since and is considered to be placed on a permanent hiatus, although this could change in the future.

Following intense media attention surrounding the matter, Brundtland decided to change residence once more, back to Norway, and she also announced that she would be paying for the treatments herself.

The German Institute for Media and Communication Policy, founded in 2005 by media scholar Lutz Hachmeister, is one of the few independent research institutions that is dedicated to issues surrounding media and communications policies.

As media attention on DID increased, so too did the controversy surrounding the diagnosis.

Białystok has a wide variety of media outlets serving the city and surrounding region.

Although the Levy family moved quickly to mobilize all such available resources, including offering a cash reward for information, hiring their own investigators, and seeking media attention, those efforts to locate Chandra Levy or find her killer were overshadowed by the speculation surrounding her possible relationship with Condit.

PWS appeared in the UK media in July 2007 when Channel 4 aired a program Can't Stop Eating, surrounding the everyday lives of two Prader-Willi patients, Joe and Tamara.

* Robert Stone in 2004 directed Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, which focuses on the media frenzy surrounding the Symbionese Liberation Army, and includes new footage and interviews.

Over the next few years, the controversy surrounding the faith healer, at first kept out of the Dutch media, erupted into a national debate over the competency of the queen.

' Maciunas wanted to establish collective workshops, food-buying cooperatives and theaters to link the strengths of various media together and bridge the gap between the artist community and the surrounding society '

Most of the Mexican media reported that the students provoked the army ’ s murderous response with sniper fire from the apartment buildings surrounding the plaza.

It is the site of the proposed North Carolina International Port, and its Southport Marina has been the subject of media attention surrounding its possible sale.

The Pinto's legacy was affected by media controversy and legal cases surrounding the safety of its gas tank design ; a recall of the car in 1978 ; and a later study examining actual incident data that concluded the Pinto was as safe as, or safer than, other cars in its class.

Despite this, controversies surrounding the use of the anthem in school events or media still remain.

Manhattan is a center of broadcast media for the surrounding area.

The city today is a regional center that provides commercial and media services, as well as a variety of occupations in the food industry, to the surrounding area.

As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered one million dollars to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star ; she accepted, and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate, aggravated by Richard Burton's on-set romance with Taylor and the surrounding media frenzy.

* Michelangelo was expected to create a digital apocalypse on March 6, with millions of computers having their information wiped according to mass media hysteria surrounding the virus.

In 2009 the cemetery became the focus of intense media interest surrounding the private entombing of Michael Jackson in the privacy of Holly Terrace in the Great Mausoleum.

There exists a diverse range of styles in fashion, varying by geography, exposure to modern media, economic conditions, and ranging from expensive haute couture to traditional garb, to thrift store grunge.

Suede were the first of the new crop of guitar-orientated bands to be embraced by the UK music media as Britain's answer to Seattle's grunge sound.

While the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s in actuality consisted of various styles and genres of music, its representation in the media " served to depict Seattle as a music ' community ' in which the focus was upon the ongoing exploration of one musical idiom, namely grunge.

Two years later, the album Prisoners in Paradise was released, but received limited media attention due to the " boom " of the grunge movement, started by Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam.

Although these were all myths that originated from the media, of which participants in the grunge scene treated with some suspicion.

Still, in the wake of the massive success of the album Nevermind ( also 1991 ) by Nirvana, the media and the marketing industry popularised and mass-marketed " grunge " clothes, music and such.

However, the nature of the culture meant it resisted glamorisation and it was soon abandoned by the media in favor of Rap, leaving the grunge scene to wither as a result.

The first single from the album, " Chemical Heart ", released in February had created a stir with long term fans and the media because it was different from their previous grunge sound.

shows grunge from the point of view of people within the grunge scene, and attempts to dispel some of the myths of the genre promulgated by media hype, hence the title.