Clarence Clemons Quotes

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

People like scandals.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

Tabloid stuff just offends.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

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

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

I never read the tabloids.

Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.

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

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.