Quote by David Sedaris

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

“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

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

— Glenn Beck

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

— Tabitha Soren

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are…

— Lester Holt

My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

— Clive Owen

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn…

— James Purdy

“it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...”

— Jane Austen

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something…

— Dan Gilroy

I'm astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it…

— Vera Brittain