Vicki Lawrence Quotes

It's the tabloids, with their intense commercial need to get scoops to bring in readers, that run a regime of fear, where reporters are bullied, shouted at. That's where things go wrong.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.

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.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

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

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at 'The View' don't want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.

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 media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.