Don Lemon Quotes

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

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

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

'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.

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

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.

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.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.