Drew Roy Quotes

The media loves negative spin.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

… yellow journalism

I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.