Report (an event or instance of something) with disproportionately great frequency or emphasis.
过多报道;过分报道(某一事件)
newspapers over-report violent crime
报纸对性犯罪事件的报道过多。
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Rape of women is under-reported, not over-reported.
The city is relatively secure, apart from a tiny minority of die-hards who insist on directing the occasional rockets at you but in all honesty, the violence is over-reported.
And I think there has been a little bit of over-reporting, for one reason or another, of this.
Sophos believes that mass-mailing viruses can easily become over-reported, especially in statistics derived from email gateway detections alone.
The newspaper effectively refused to report on the candidate's moral viewpoints, even though it did not hesitate to over-report any issue going against the opposition.
I tend to over-report every story, as a glance at my desk demonstrates.
The danger, he warns, is over-reporting of U.S. engineering jobs being outsourced overseas, which discourages young people from pursuing engineering careers.
The 22 page study documents that despite the decrease in youth-perpetrated crime - down by 33% nationwide since 1993 - newspapers over-reported youth crime, giving the opposite impression.
I suspect its saturation coverage of the whole event had more to do with proximity than strategy; CNN invariably over-reports any story originating near its Atlanta studios.
The issue of over-reporting of ‘actual’ poor health has been addressed elsewhere.
He feels that the community agrees it was over-reported.
While over-reporting attacks may create the impression that the campaign is more negative than it really is, under-representing attacks may make it more difficult for voters to see distinctions between candidates.
The Chief of Police berates the media for over-reporting that terrible case.
This again relies on physician-reported behavior and is likely to be over-reported; furthermore, teaching of TSE does not mean that patients regularly or correctly perform the examination.
It may also be the case that men tend to over-report female initiation given interactionist pressures to ‘do gender’ and therefore constitute their own desirability during interviews.
It seems to me that this confirms the theory that the press over-reports stories that play into pre-existing tropes and stereotypes about a candidate and ignore potential stories that don't.
But nothing seems to be as powerful an opiate as an extended court case - massively over-reported by the media - of some quite insignificant individual who has fallen foul of the law.
In fact, others argue that IE's security flaws are over-reported in the media simply because of IE's popularity.
In both the work done in Wiltshire and in the work that we did at the Game Conservancy Trust, we found over-reporting of the hunt culls by farmers.
I would say crime. There's a real concern about criminal activity in Edmonton but I think that it's over-reported.