Hope Solo Quotes

The media loves negative spin.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.

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

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

… yellow journalism

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

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

I wish the media stopped making two and two equal five all the time.

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

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.

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.

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

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

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

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

The article on Pakistan … was so vulgar and low that I considered it an insult to reflect on it. It was in short words a bull-shit, full of lies, insinuations and cheap journalism for money and cheap publicity. Shyam Bhatia, a Hindu bastard, could not write anything objective about Pakistan. Both insinuated as if Holland is an atomic bomb manufacturing factory where, instead of cheese balls, you could pick up “triggering mechanisms.” Have you for a moment thought of the meaning of this word? Of course not because you could not differentiate between the mouth and the back hole of a donkey.