Quotes About Sensationalism

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

everybody puts their balls on her!

Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Woman rescued by Yeti!'How dare they make this into a joke.

But that's just the news, isn't it. They make their money out of having ordinary people on the edge of their seats all the time and fretting over every little thing.' 'But

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

I believe I'm not in the press, just in terms of being photographed and paparazzi all the time, or looking for that sensationalistic type of side or anything like that, so I keep things very quiet.

In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Julieta nunca lo decepcionó. Era una periodista nata y de su misma estirpe, capaz de matar a su madre por una primicia, sobre todo si era sucia y escabrosa.

It was always difficult to maintain author integrity when the facts did not support the sensationalism required by the employers, and best not to put oneself in such a position.