Johnny Depp Quotes

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

I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

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

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

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.

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

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

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

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.

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

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

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

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I never read the tabloids.

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

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

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.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

… yellow journalism

Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.