Quotes About Sensationalism

Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

McCarthy succeeded because he discovered and made full use of a tradition of American journalism—that most newpapermen report the news 'straight.' This means that if a prominent person says something sensational—even if untrue—the press normally will report the statement exactly as spoken ... The press simply acts as a mirror.

It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.

Journalisms' once Holy Mantra of "who, what, where, when and, sometimes how," has been thoroughly eradicated by a ravenous creature of 24/7 photo-ops and sound bites.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

Chapter 8 "America's No. 1 Vomic" (Winchell)

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

The media is complicit in fear mongering.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need. Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

walk over and turn the television on to CNN, and it has a huge BREAKING NEWS banner plastered across the bottom of the screen. It's part of the trend in television news, everything is treated as a monumental revelation worthy of being declared BREAKING NEWS. I'm waiting for the time when they announce the BREAKING NEWS that there is no BREAKING NEWS.

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?

Charlie was booked as "MANSON, CHARLES M., AKA JESUS CHRIST, GOD.

What did I want to do with myself? I wanted to do this! I wanted to drink martinis with showgirls, and listen to Broadway business talk, and eavesdrop on the gossip of boys who looked like girls! I wanted to hear about people's big sex lives!