Quotes About Sensationalism

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

They've only published it on the front page because her nipples practically poke your eyes out.

Television news trivializes significant stories and signifies trivial ones.

People want to be titillated or frightened. They don't want to think.

Facts always are sensational.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

People in the news channel can make more artificial stories on any subject than the writers who are in the film industry.

The level of promotion has gone so low that they create the controversy around the movie, book, tv serial or show and blow this news everywhere to make everyone know and talk about it.

They may play with the people's emotion and create the sensation on the headlines to divert the attention of the population from the main problem.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

Devin's a drama queen.

People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

Ram Rahim was not a spiritual leader but a lowgrade film star that the media enjoyed talking about.

Unprovable stories about her sexual encounters with a horse have come down to the twenty-first century.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.