Kenneth Rexroth Quotes

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

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

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

Political movements always belong to the young.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

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

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

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

What draws the press is conflict, corruption and scandal.

The whole heartbeat of the first record is young, which I think is what made it relatable to young girls.

A crippling fallacy that characterizes our modern media is the idea that every event that rises to the level of news must connote some wider societal or political crisis that can only be remedied by government intervention.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

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.

If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it's getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut.

The real news is bad news.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.