alarum(On the cable news channels, especially, there were teary-eyed interviews with bystanders; alarums from both the gun control advocates on the one side and the Second Amendment nuts on the other; and--inevitably, inappropriately--debates over what the shooting might mean for this closely-watched Senate race.)
headlines(в прессе • My role in the discovery and the ensuing headlines guarantees more-than-average attention.Abysslooker); craze(ВосьМой); buzz(ВосьМой); coverage(The shopkeepers of Boulogne
must be rejoicing; the newspaper coverage of May Daniels’s murder
can hardly be good for business.Abysslooker)
media circus(*о чрезмерной реакции прессы на незначительное событие: Media circus is a colloquial metaphor, or idiom, describing a news event for which the level of media coverage—measured by such factors as the number of reporters at the scene and the amount of material broadcast or published—is perceived to be excessive or out of proportion to the event being covered. (Wikipedia) • The closest that residents in the sleepy seaside town of Formby got to violent crime in 1977 was, the BBC solemnly reported, by watching Kojak. So the mysterious disappearance of garden ornaments, replaced by sinister ransom notes, was big news. It led to a media circus as journalists were dispatched to investigate the “phantom gnome snatcher of Formby”. (theguardian.com)ART Vancouver)
