Quotes About Sensationalism

Make the matter even more terrible than the truth

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Maybe he was annoyed by the criticism he got for the scene in Grizzly Man during which he listens to Timothy Treadwell's death over headphones: Why should he get to hear it and we don't? There was no need—the coroner had already given a play-by-play account. The voyeurs still wanted more. They wanted to hear raw mortality.

News is a form of entertainment .

Producers of TV newsmagazines routinely let emotional accounts trump objective information.

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

I find reality television to be so delectable.

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

My life can't be reduced to click-bait journalism.

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

It's not just in my industry... everything is so sensationalized that there's not a lot of heart and soul in a lot of things there used to be heart and soul in.

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs ...

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

Although television and newspapers have played the biggest role in hyping up the World Cup, they are at the lowest end of the megabuck chain.

The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at 'The View' don't want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.

You know, the last time America sensationalized an actor from India, the man died a poor, miserable soul: He was Sabu, the elephant boy. He came here and was the toast of Hollywood. And he just went back to India and died a pauper.

Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

And terror's first cousin: media coverage.