Mick Jagger Quotes

… yellow journalism

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

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

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

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.

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 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.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

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.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

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

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

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

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I do have a problem with how 'Politico' has engaged in covering politics, especially on our side. I think it is tweet-happy, it is clickbait in many cases, and it's devoid of facts.

That's the media now. They get lazy. Rumors become fact. Some blogger says something, next thing you know, it's in 'USA Today.'

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.

Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He's blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

We're not into all those dodgy journos who makes stories up.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.