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Quotes About Sensationalism

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
~ Kal Penn
If the press can take the easy option, they will. To them, I'm always 'the wild man.'
~ Keith Allen
There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.
~ Soha Ali Khan
If the pope were caught on tape tomorrow worshiping Satan, the story would likely die within a day. It would be too implausible. Video or not, no one would believe it.
~ Tucker Carlson
We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.
~ Don Henley
Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.
~ Michael Jackson
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
~ Al Yankovic
Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
~ Mojo Nixon
Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.
~ Ray Davies
Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
~ Uwe Boll
We get the papers: I prefer broadsheets because I had the fear of God put into me by the tabloids and, though I'm very much over it, I still don't really like to read them. It's a destructive vernacular that makes me angry and scared, and it is all sensationalist onomatopoeia and alliteration.
~ Neil Morrissey
Nadine's photo had been on the national news and in all the newspapers. She was the famous daughter of the infamous killer. The girl who had turned her own mother in to the police.
~ Unknown
It's funny: when the press knows someone's gonna say something stupid, they're quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.
~ Damon Dash
Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
~ Venus Williams
The press no longer exaggerated the incidence of minor accidents
~ Peter Ackroyd
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
~ Peter McWilliams
We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association. -the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburners, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum, the self-congratulatory self-congratulators, the sensationalists, the snakes in the grass, the sex fiends, the shiftless, the shines, the shaggy, the sickly, the syphilitic-
~ Philip Roth
Donald Trump, pedophile - Donald Trump, polygraph test ... soon.
~ Unknown
My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.
~ David Sedaris
These tabloids only want to exploit. They don't understand this woman and her life. They don't understand you, let alone someone like me. If you want my opinion, they're nothing but savages and we'd be better off without them.
~ David Sedaris
Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.
~ Hugh Hefner
Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
~ Craig Brown