Michael Jackson Quotes

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.

There's no such thing as good news in America.

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

Hate sells.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

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

… yellow journalism

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

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

Negativity sells.

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.'

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

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

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.

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.

Controversy sells books.

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

Misery sells newspapers.

The media loves negative spin.