Ervin Wardman Quotes

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

We all know that yellow journalism didn't just happen a week ago or a month ago, that yellow journalism has probably been with us as long as journalism has been with us.

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

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

The media loves negative spin.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

We get the papers: I prefer broadsheets because I had the fear of God put into me by the tabloids and, though I'm very much over it, I still don't really like to read them. It's a destructive vernacular that makes me angry and scared, and it is all sensationalist onomatopoeia and alliteration.

That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

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

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Journalism, as practiced by some, has become something akin to professional wrestling—something to watch rather than believe.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

I operate on the principle that the mass media will never be accurate. They never have been. When did yellow journalism begin? After all, their basic principle is, simplify and exaggerate.

I think that there's become a very clickbait mentality among a lot of reporters, where they're more interested in their clip or their click than they are about the truth and the facts.

I criticize the media for inventing stories.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.