John Prendergast Quotes

The media loves negative spin.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

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

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

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.

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 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 media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

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.

People see whatever the media first reports.

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.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

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

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

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 am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

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.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

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