Robin Sloan Quotes

Controversy sells books.

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

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

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.

I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.

The media should be ready to cover every event at the Oberois' residence. If Vivek's dog has dysentery tomorrow, we should be prepared to hear Vivek talk about it on camera for three hours.

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.

Going forward, which story will the media find more interesting, [Donald] Trump's or Hillary's [Clinton]? Does Hillary even have a story? Does anyone even care?

Yeah, that'll excite the media, what role will Bill [Clinton] have, versus the [Donald] Trump story. But in all of this, the key to remember is that we're not talking about media.

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

I don't know that it's a lack of creativity so much as it is , a lack of resources. And maybe a little bit of a lack of will but when you look at what fills every hour, let's just take CNN as an example, not because I think they're particularly egregious, but, they're sort of the ongoing hour, hour, hour. Why do they give us bulletins every single day on the latest poll? Very easy to cover a poll, right?

I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

Trump doesn't need to spend a dime to get his message out. Trump doesn't have to run an ad. Trump doesn't have to run a series. He doesn't have to pay people to show up. He doesn't have to buy TV advertising, because he gets more coverage than the combined advertising the rest of the Republicans could buy. And aside from the overwhelming, significant upset that is, the very fact of all that ticks them off. Donald Trump has direct access to his supporters. And you know who gives it to him? The media.

These people in the media, they may hate Donald Trump, but they cannot stop covering him.

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.

I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on the front page of a national newspaper is a bit exceptional.

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

It proves what they say, give the public what they want to see and they'll come out for it.

That's another thing the #NeverTrump-ers can't figure out and despise. But the media did, too. The media was fascinated. [Donald] Trump was ratings. He was money, and still is.