John Major Quotes

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The real news is bad news.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

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

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

Media is set up to give information to the people - at least that's what it says. But we all know in the U.S. that media is a capitalistic system, people are getting paid to write things, they have bosses and editors, and they have bosses, and they put pressure on people to write intriguing stories that catch the eye.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

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.

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

The media loves negative spin.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

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

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.

I think it's really tough being in Donald Trump's shoes, when you've got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.