Details Quote by Michelle Dean

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

— Peter Diamandis

“In TV newsrooms, if it bleeds it leads remains the watchword. A study of 559 newscasts in twenty television markets across the United States…

— Barry Glassner

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

— Honore de Balzac

“Television news programs survive on scares. On local newscasts, where producers live by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” drug, crime, and disaster…

— Barry Glassner

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

— John Prendergast

“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

“As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote…

— Jacob Weisberg

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

There comes a time in the life of every government when the media decide that it has blundered so fatally that a complete recovery…

— Barkha Dutt

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part…

— Soha Ali Khan

“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior news coverage…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.”

— Nathan Hill