Joel Edgerton Quotes

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.

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

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.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

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

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

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

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

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.

… 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.

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

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.'

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

[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 do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

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