Sebastian Junger Quotes

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that Mike Pence are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore.

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

Do something good and you won’t make page one. Find something bad and you might make page one.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

A crippling fallacy that characterizes our modern media is the idea that every event that rises to the level of news must connote some wider societal or political crisis that can only be remedied by government intervention.

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.

Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

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.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Every president feels that he has gotten unfair, dishonest coverage from the news media.