Alex Pareene Quotes

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

The media loves negative spin.

The media can't get anything straight.

I wouldn’t mind having the proceedings of the court sent out on television covering it gavel to gavel. But by the time most of the media do their editing and broadcasting, I’m afraid that the public will see an atypical sampling of the court. It will misinform the public rather than inform.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

Unfortunately because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it's made the media in general more opinionated and there's more of a 'gotcha mentality' than real reporting.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

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.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

I apologize for what the media has done.

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.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

… yellow journalism

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

Those who suppose the modern media uniquely prone to hyperbole, fantasy and deceit should consider the madness of rumor and invention that overtook the world’s press in 1914.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.