Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

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.

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

… yellow journalism

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

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.'

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

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

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

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

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

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Unfortunately because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it's made the media in general more opinionated and there's more of a 'gotcha mentality' than real reporting.

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.

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

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

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.

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.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

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.

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

Sound bite hearings and sound bite journalism feed off each other.

Yellow journalism is defined by prominent headlines that screamed excitement, often about comparatively unimportant news; a lavish use of pictures, many of them without significance; faked interviews and stories; a Sunday supplement and color comics; and a more or less ostentatious sympathy with the 'underdog,' with campaigns against abuses suffered by the common people.