Bill Moyers Quotes

Muck-raker

Scandal is news with a very human face, interesting to a high percentage of the American public.

Controversy sells books.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

It is not every day that a pop superstar gets involved with terrorism as a victim, so the press takes advantage of that to say things they think are funny.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

The press is the enemy.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

People like scandals.

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

If you say a more outrageous thing than everyone else that day, you're going to get the headlines.

I'd have to set my hair on fire to get on the news.

When there is a conflict between a [network] corporation and the needs of it’s news division, the corporate interest will win out.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.