Quotes About Sensationalism

Once it would have been a year's worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.

I'm tired of the news. I'm tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren't, and deals so simplistically with what's truly appalling.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.

Hindi news is much more determinedly populist and lowbrow than the English channels.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

People like controversy because that's what sells.

I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

I don't read tabloids. I just don't go there.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.