Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

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.

… yellow journalism

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

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

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.'

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 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 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.

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

When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

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.

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.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

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

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

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

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

The media loves negative spin.

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.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.