Stephen A. Smith Quotes

People like controversy because that's what sells.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

When I was in advertising we used to pull them in with naked women. Now I do it with swastikas and uniforms.

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

Negativity gets attention and gets clicks.

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

The media loves negative spin.

When I was in advertising we used naked women to pull them in. Now I use swastikas and uniforms.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

… yellow journalism

TMZ is so disgusting.

To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

The easiest way to win the competition for eyeballs in the digital age is to broadcast bad behavior. People like watching train wrecks.

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things. I think our culture likes to be mean. I don't just find this in fashion - I find it in the news. More and more, it is about ripping people apart.

Those who tell us to be in touch with our own desires are often merely trying to make us believe that what we want is the thing that they are selling. […] We're used to that kind of persuasion, for political candidates as well as commercial products.

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well, what do you know that we don't?' That's what Trump does all the time.

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

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.

I don't believe in sensationalism, but I do believe in the sensational.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.