Yolanda Hadid Quotes

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

I apologize for what the media has done.

Ordeal by publicity is the legitimate grandchild of ordeal by fire, water and battle … the damage to society generally resulting from the violence of unnecessary publicity are immeasurably greater.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.

Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

When Oliver Stone and Woody Allen came forward to express sympathy for Mr. Weinstein, everybody rolled their eyes at them, too.

I have been accused of many crimes. A TV channel even put up a show called 'Sins of Asin!'

If you had a fabricated story coming out every two weeks or every month, it would affect you. You would be like, 'What's the problem with people?' or 'Why can't they let me be?' And that's the thought that comes into anyone's mind.

Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would expose for traffic and commenters who gloried in its actions.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.