Austin Aries Quotes

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

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.

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

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

… 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 do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

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.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

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.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.