Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Reality shows always look for the worst people.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts. Then it becomes sensationalism, and you lower yourself to the level of the popular newspapers.

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

I don't want to just traffic in sensationalism or in mere blood.

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

The most shocking and scandalous story will always get people's attention.

Businessmen and corporate men watch 'Hee Haw.' With that kind of audience, how can they take it off?

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.