Ajit Pai Quotes

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

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

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

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

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

Yellow journalism is defined by prominent headlines that screamed excitement, often about comparatively unimportant news; a lavish use of pictures, many of them without significance; faked interviews and stories; a Sunday supplement and color comics; and a more or less ostentatious sympathy with the 'underdog,' with campaigns against abuses suffered by the common people.

I don't believe in sensationalism, but I do believe in the sensational.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

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

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

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

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.

I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

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.

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

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

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.