Quotes About Sensationalism

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

Mum is sexing David.' It isn't sexing, it is having sex with.

The eldest son, the Prince of Wales, was the undisputed leader of the unfiltered pack and is believed, among other accomplishments, to have bedded seven thousand women; he is said to have snipped and kept a lock of hair from each of them.

McCue: Now, Mrs. Margolies, this is Mr. McCue of the City News Bureau— City News Bureau— is it rue, Madame that you were the victim of a peeping tom? Kruger: Ask her if she's worth peeping at? Wilson: Has she got a friend?

People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.

All the media are horrible.

I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

La noticia «Houben corre los cien metros en 10,6» despertaba exactamente las mismas sensaciones que en su época el titular «Capturados veinte mil rusos», y «Peltzer gana el campeonato inglés y bate el récord mundial» equivalía incluso a acontecimientos que, ¡ay!, jamás habían tenido lugar durante la guerra, como «París conquistada» o «Inglaterra solicita la paz». Yo

For five weeks, the Associated Press had provided the world with lurid coverage of the attack on Virgil Earp, which was labeled Cow Boy revenge for what was being called "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" because it took too long to set the type for "Gunfight in the Vacant Lot behind Camillus Fly's Photography Studio Near Fremont Street.

enormes titulares, sus imágenes explícitas y sus textos excesivamente simplificados noqueaban los sentidos y entraban en la consciencia de las personas sin necesidad del proceso intermedio de la razón, como si la comida fuese disparada al recto sin tener que pasar por la digestión.

Noticia es lo que excite más al mayor número de gente. Lo que les va a impresionar y dejar atontados. Cuanto más atontados, mejor, siempre que haya suficientes»

Between 1995 and 2005, there were on average 60.3 worldwide shark attacks each year, with a high of 79 and a low of 46. There were on average 5.9 fatalities per year, with a high of 11 and a low of 3. In other words, the headlines during the summer of 2001 might just as easily have read "Shark Attacks About Average This Year." But that probably wouldn't have sold many magazines.

We never see a journalist saying to the camera, "I'm reporting live from a country where a war has not broken out"—or a city that has not been bombed, or a school that has not been shot up. As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billions of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word no.

Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. Big stuff like that.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.