Lucy Punch Quotes

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

… yellow journalism

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

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.

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.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

[about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

I only know what I read in the papers.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

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

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or the Oscars. However, some are particularly drawn to material that makes them feel shocked, frightened, insecure, or indignant, and that's what potato-chip news often provides.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.