Quotes About Sensationalism

Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or the Oscars. However, some are particularly drawn to material that makes them feel shocked, frightened, insecure, or indignant, and that's what potato-chip news often provides.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

Survivor: Lilly: A sickening attempt by the media to draw viewers by pandering to the lowest common denominator and appealing to the public's enjoyment of watching others being exploited and humiliated. 0/10 Mia: Yeah. And who wants to watch people eat bugs? Ew!!!! 0/10

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.

What grabs our mental spotlight is illicit sex, violent death, and Walter Mittyish leaps of status. Now

Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

Oh, please." Hickory looked skeptical. "Your show is pure sensationalism. Tripe tabloid at its worst—" Wendy interrupted him. "We've met before, Mr. Hickory." That slowed him down. "Have we?" "When I was an assistant producer on A Current Affair. I booked you as an expert on the Robert Blake murder trial." He

publicly raped by a specially trained giraffe, after which she was torn apart by wild animals.

somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.

Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder for a cable-news frenzy.

Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

Somebody once called the media the merchants of chaos.

The media is going to be hovering over this case like the helicopters that followed O.J. down the freeway.

Headless Body in Topless Bar.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and then publicize it for profit.

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

I am so in love with my brother right now!

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

celebrity. The number one topic on network evening newscasts for the decade was crime, even though crime rates nationally were plummeting during the period.