Quotes About Sensationalism

bigger numbers make better headlines.

Only conflict is news, and

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

The world in general, gentlemen, are very bloody-minded; and all they want in a murder is a copious effusion of blood; gaudy display in this point is enough for them.

Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Misery sells newspapers.

If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were candles in the wind, and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.

The public never saw how producers and executives juiced up stories. Exaggerating some details and downplaying or ignoring others. How they went after something or someone, not based on how strong or important the story was, but what their ratings books told them.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

The newspapers of today chronicle with degrading avidity the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatever. I must give them up.

My poor brother. The media beast was hungry, and Matthew Angel was the appetizer, the main dish, and the dessert.

Hollis asked me, "How'd the meeting with the editor at the Daily News go?" "About like you'd expect. It's very clear to me that they're only interested in the number of papers they sell or clicks the story gets online, not in helping out our homicide investigation. I swear, sometimes it feels like there are some awfully bloodthirsty people in the media who want more murders so they can have juicier stories that sell more papers.