William Shatner Quotes

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

I never read the tabloids.

I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

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

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

American newspapers disregard principles to seize on people, following them into their private lives and laying bare their weaknesses and their vices.

TMZ is so disgusting.

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.