Tibor Kalman Quotes

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Do something good and you won’t make page one. Find something bad and you might make page one.

I've never seen anyone say, 'Let's go get this person today; let's really ram it into him.' I've never seen it. If a Democrat or Republican commits some horrendous story, the story will run. The networks will cover it.

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the media will show the firefight even though the school is way more important and will affect the community for much longer.

All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.

I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that Mike Pence are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore.

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

I think that the media spends far too much time [on personalities].

Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

It is true that the Drive-By Media is not spending a lot of time covering the Donald Trump Middle East trip. The reason is, they don't want to write or televise any of this because it's in such stark contrast to the pictures they've been painting of Trump. It's so incongruent. It's so inconsistent. In addition to all else, it is the protection of the Barack Obama legacy.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.