Quotes About Sensationalism

And then there are a lot of people who come here because they actually want to try to do something good in this country. In my case, I was working at a newspaper in Sinaloa for years, trying to report on the drug war, trying to make people there aware of what was happening in their own backyard, but my bosses only had an appetite for the macabre. They kept sending me out to take photos of crime scenes that they'd plaster

If all that is said of me were true—nay, if half of it were true—I ought to be buried alive. Lola Montez,

They'll know we fucked." Her eyes widened. "Sex sells. Sex and murder? Sex and fire and a serial killer? Hell, the reporters will fight each other for coverage. In the past, no one knew about us.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

Gossip never has to be true. It only has to be interesting.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Rarely have we seen so much made over so little.

the favored victim in the tabloid headline . . . was young, white, middle class and 'attractive'.

Let's quit and become famous for being drunk 24/7 ?

Quando la tragedia umana si è compiuta, la si passa ai giornalisti affinché, banalizzandola, la trasformino in spettacolo.

People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

the thunder and bombast of what passes for news programming today--Motto: All terror, all the time

the television news paused for a commercial--Coming up next: Are we all going to die Tomorrow?

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

A pseudo-event… comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.

Sensationalism only works for so long. Think of something like the Kony 2012 campaign. Its sensationalized, viral language got people all hot and bothered, but at the end of the day, there was so much it got wrong about the situation, and that did more damage to their cause than what they got right.

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.

Mike Walker - the National Enquirer Legend.

The media exaggerate little things.