Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.
Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.
Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
I grew up around media so for me I've always been interested in that topic, whether it's a complete satire or a documentary. I love anything that touches on the state of information versus entertainment and what's newsworthy and what's not.
The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.
They are servants to a fickle public; they must seize its attention by novelty, hold it by new injections of interest, and then move on to something else. A newspaper can risk boring its public at its own peril.
