Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

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

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.

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

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

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.

… 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.

Those who suppose the modern media uniquely prone to hyperbole, fantasy and deceit should consider the madness of rumor and invention that overtook the world’s press in 1914.

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

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

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

Like Trump, I would say that fake news is distributed 24 hours a day.

They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do. I never like it when they tell me that, and I'm sure they're right, but when people say things that are fabrication - you know, there were fabricated stories made up, these were fabrications. Out of nowhere.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

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.