{"quotes":[{"text":"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["deceit","good-deeds","gossip","libel","lies","media","news","propaganda","sensationalism","slander","society","story","unsung"],"id":19723,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["boredom","engagement","interest","news","presentation","responsibility","sensationalism","seriousness","thoughtfulness"],"id":88735,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.","author":"Emily Eden","tags":["detective-stories","murder","mysteries","sensationalism"],"id":107603,"author_id":"Emily+Eden"},{"text":"Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared; they have childlike perceptions of the world that should be marveled; or they are responsible for their illness because they have weak character (29-32).'World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON.","author":"Patrick W. Corrigan","tags":["bias","blame","childlike","dangerousness","discrimination","fear","media-bias","media-distortion","media-manipulation","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mental-patient","prejudice","psychiatric-community","sensationalism","stereotyped","stereotyped-prejudices","stereotypes","stigma","stigmatization"],"id":147752,"author_id":"Patrick+W.+Corrigan"},{"text":"Of real sensational journalism, as it exists in France, in Ireland, and in America, we have no trace in this country. When a journalist in Ireland wishes to create a thrill, he creates a thrill worth talking about. He denounces a leading Irish member for corruption, or he charges the whole police system with a wicked and definite conspiracy. When a French journalist desires a frisson there is a frisson; he discovers, let us say, that the President of the Republic has murdered three wives. Our yellow journalists invent quite as unscrupulously as this; their moral condition is, as regards careful veracity, about the same. But it is their mental calibre which happens to be such that they can only invent calm and even reassuring things. The fictitious version of the massacre of the envoys of Pekin was mendacious, but it was not interesting, except to those who had private reasons for terror or sorrow. It was not connected with any bold and suggestive view of the Chinese situation. It revealed only a vague idea that nothing could be impressive except a great deal of blood. Real sensationalism, of whichI happen to be very fond, may be either moral or immoral. But even when it is most immoral, it requires moral courage. For it is one of the most dangerous things on earth genuinely to surprise anybody. If you make any sentient creature jump, you render it by no means improbable that it will jump on you. But the leaders of this movement have no moral courage or immoral courage; their whole method consists in saying, with large and elaborate emphasis, the things which everybody else says casually, and without remembering what they have said. When they brace themselves up to attack anything, they never reach the point of attacking anything which is large and real, and would resound with the shock. They do not attack the army as men do in France, or the judges as men do in Ireland, or the democracy itself as men did in England a hundred years ago. They attack something like the War Office--something, that is, which everybody attacks and nobody bothers to defend, something which is an old joke in fourth-rate comic papers.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["journalism","sensationalism"],"id":215606,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Naturally, people — especially in America — live in the moment and, given the “crisis” orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.","author":"Ivan Eland","tags":["best","crisis","dramatization","liberal","media-bias","news","politics","republican","sensationalism","victim","worst","yellow-journalism"],"id":244320,"author_id":"Ivan+Eland"},{"text":"Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["circus","media","news","newspaper","sensationalism","tragedy","world"],"id":254119,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["1914","1981","fiction","fiction-writing","journalism","sensationalism"],"id":324877,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.","author":"John Irving","tags":["rumors","sensationalism","truth"],"id":347467,"author_id":"John+Irving"},{"text":"I give boring people something to discuss over corn.","author":"Aimee Bender","tags":["gossip","sensationalism"],"id":406912,"author_id":"Aimee+Bender"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}