Sensationalism Quotes

• Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

  Agatha Christie

  Long, Dies

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

  Tiger Woods

  Stories, Way, Facts

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• Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.

  Michael Jackson

  News, Tabloids, Wonderful

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• Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Media, Issues

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

  John Heider

  Drama, Clouds, Groups

  John Heider (2014). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Light, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

  Nora Ephron

  People, Events, Taste

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.321, Vintage

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• The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

  Jon Stewart

  Media, Laziness, Conflict

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suffering, Our Society, Culture

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• Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Kids, Rocks

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.47, Melville House

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• "Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

  John Major

  Government, Doe, Blunders

  "'I shouldn't have read the papers so much when I was PM'". Interview with Julia Langdon, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2007.

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• The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

  Bradford Cox

  Internet, Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sex, Hate, Mean

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

  Carl Bernstein

  Reality, Media, Gossip

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• We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

  Bruce Davison

  America, Issues, News

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• Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

  Constant Lambert

  Pilots, Spirals, Descending

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "Music and the Naughty 'Nineties", Hogarth Press edition, p. 64, 1985.

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• Rebellion, just to be clear, can mean holding onto some of your own integrity, of not playing into the idea of sensationalism. We all have our moments, and that's your guys' job - to take those moments and make them turgid, gaseous, make them big, and it's bigger than the person is. When you start believing your own press, that's when it gets really sad.

  Josh Brolin

  Jobs, Integrity, Believe

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Reality TV is really just based for sensationalism. So, it's extreme versions and extreme caricatures of personalities.

  Essence Atkins

  Reality, Personality, Tvs

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• I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, Stars, Growing Up

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.

  Zachary Quinto

  Results, Conversation

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Church, Objects

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.

  Uri Geller

  Football, Stars, Team

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• In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very few places that offers intelligence, integrity, and variety.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Integrity, Media, Boston

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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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