Pope Francis Quotes

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

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 dwells mostly on negativity.

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

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

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

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

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

… 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.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

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

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

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

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

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

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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