Robert Reich Quotes

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.

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

Hate sells.

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.

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.

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.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work

… yellow journalism

There are an awful lot of people making lots of money promoting fear. Their hot microphones have flamethrowers.

The media can be a megaphone for terrorists to communicate their message. The media should put things in perspective and context and not instinctively do what the terrorists want the media to do.

Are those making these charges better equipped to deal with the Ebola threat than those they castigate? These easy charges, nurtured in hindsight, by people by people who have never had to make decisions or have responsibilities in the matter, play into the national penchant for finger-pointing and feed panic.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

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

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.

We get the papers: I prefer broadsheets because I had the fear of God put into me by the tabloids and, though I'm very much over it, I still don't really like to read them. It's a destructive vernacular that makes me angry and scared, and it is all sensationalist onomatopoeia and alliteration.

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.

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.

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.