Quotes About Sensationalism

I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.

The irrelevance cum sensationalism of mainstream media, its strange quietude on vital issues, its publicity posing as journalism did their job and mangled my own hapless, helpless unspeakable thoughts.

Why is it that everyone loves to see the rich person get flushed down the toilet? Why is it people will spend four dollars to buy a magazine just so they can read about some Hollywood star's divorce? Or arrest? Or bad luck? I have no idea what Hollywood crimes have actually been told truthfully, but at least I have the brains to say I don't know.

Well, when the Enquirer becomes your standard for living, you're in a lot of trouble! When

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

It is so much like a movie, Irina can't stand it.

People like murder, Peabody. They jive on it when it's got at least one of those degrees of separation. Reading about it, watching vids about it, turning on the evening news to hear about it. As long as it isn't too close.

That's the Daily Mail for you, they'll twist whatever you say and try and start a fight. They are terrible, awful gossip-mongers and troublemakers.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

The press, when they get a hold of something, they twist things.

You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.

Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him.

Homicidal satanic cults are the detective's version of yetis: no one has ever seen one and there is no proof that they exist, but one big blurry fingerprint and the media turn into a gibbering, foaming pack, so we have to act as though we take the idea at least semi-seriously.

The media loves negative spin.

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

There are obviously a multitude of brutal things that happen on 'Game of Thrones,' and the press or social media tend to latch on to particular things, don't they?

Unable to reach me and gather the real facts, rival newspapers proceeded to enlarge on the slightest item to keep the Jorgensen story moving before the public. If I sneezed, it was duly reported as an event.

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.

it's like a mini Bourbon Street with less culture and more disgusting hookers.

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.

El caso es que los periódicos no están hechos para difundir sino para encubrir noticias. Sucede el hecho X, no puedes obviarlo, pero, como pone en apuros a demasiada gente, en ese mismo número te marcas unos titulones que le ponen a uno los pelos de punta: madre degüella a sus cuatro hijos, quizá nuestros ahorros acaben en cenizas

American men had made do for so long with smiling chorines and sweet titillation in their sleazy magazine that no one realised how hungry they were to have their sex mixed with terror and blood.