Quotes About Sensationalism

For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Sensationalism dies quickly - fear is long-lived.

The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

I don't wanna be in a show that's salacious just for the sake of getting viewers.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

Aileen Wuornos, Belle Gunness, and . . . A quick search on the internet gives me Juana Barraza, Jane Toppan, and Nannie Doss.

Mainstream media can do anything for TRP and spreading fake news by creating hashtag trend on social media handles and showing numerous supporters to it is nothing new for them.

prurient interest.

That's exactly what Octomom is: a carnival attraction.

Chaos is good for CNN.

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

No trial, no sensational headlines, no mud-slinging just to sell newspapers without the slightest regard for truth or fair play or for the feelings of innocent people.

Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on its circulation and you know what the circulation depends on.

Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda.

Served up through the id-feeding Technicolor TV drip that passed for national news coverage, he was just new dosage in a regime already 150 years screen-ingrained.

Trussed chickens always look like sex-crime victims, pale and flabby and hogtied. It turns out that this goes double for trussed half-chickens.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

The press lives on disaster.

Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.