Don Henley Quotes

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

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

Misery sells newspapers.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

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.

The most shocking and scandalous story will always get people's attention.

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.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

Those who dumb down the news, trivialize the news with in-studio shouting matches passing for debate

I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

The Harding/Kerrigan saga was one of the first feeding-frenzy stories that would forever change news coverage.

For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.

We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.

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

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.

The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at 'The View' don't want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.

It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of things that previously would never have gotten the kind of coverage that is happening.

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

The lead story on MSNBC was the news that there was nothing new to report in the Gary Condit story. So remember when there is nothing new to report, MSNBC will be the station not to report it first.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.