Quotes About Sensationalism

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

On 'The X Factor,' they deliberately have people on that are awful just to laugh at them.

I don't care about media crocodile tears for pageviews.

Most of us will agree that my former medium, television news, has been reduced to tawdry entertainment.

Vanpelt was a hack. More often than not, she chose the low-hanging fruit, because she was lazy, not interested in doing any real work to uncover facts. She sought out the sensational stories that would get her face front and center on the six and eleven o'clock newscasts.

Hearst was eager to stoke the flames of conflict between Spain and the United States over Cuba and sent Frederick Remington the photographer, who could find no signs of war. In a famous exchange of cables, Hearst responded to Remington, "You provide the pictures; I'll provide the war."10

That panic had been over a single one-hour broadcast on one network in one country saying the world was coming to an end," continued Groves. "Imagine what a constant barrage of such coverage everywhere on the planet for weeks or months would do.

Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.

A man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

There once was a woman name of Sil, Who inserted a lit dynamite stick for a thrill. They found her vagina in North Carolina- And bits of her tits in Brazil.

Along with too many people and too much money have come the ills that now afflict America, Europe, Japan alike. And while I can accept the crowds, the autos, the television, I cannot accept the diminution of humanity that follows—the sensationalism, the cynicism, the brutality. Though I am not interested in the humane disciplines, not interested in humanity itself, I am interested in people, some of them, and I believe in them, a few of them.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

I've had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.

If the front-page news is a comedian doing a joke that people think is naughty, that proves there's no real news that day, does it not?

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

The press likes to create cat fights with girl bands.

FOX said the Dragon had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated the 'scale might've been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation. CNN reported both sides.

Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face, and after that most of the news was less about who did it and more about how not to catch it.

All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it's everywhere, even if it's some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn't a thing to do with us.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

that overeager reporters would somehow