Martina Hingis Quotes

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

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

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

I wouldn't agree with some of the things that the press writes about and that's all I have to say about that.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

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.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

News and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.

I deplore with you, the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them.... As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.

… yellow journalism

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

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

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

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.