Bother Quote by Anonymous

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive…

— Susan Orlean

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines. Things that…

— Don Winslow

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with…

— Paul Auster

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their…

— Beau Willimon

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by…

— George W. Bush

“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general…

— Ruth Ozeki

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like…

— Rush Limbaugh

The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

— Diana Gabaldon

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or…

— Arianna Huffington

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up…

— Shahid Afridi

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip…

— Ilana Mercer