Liz Trotta Quotes

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

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

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

We've lost a lot of regard for straight forward news stories, and that has then been supplemented by comment, not even analysis, which has created a lot of celebrity journalists.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

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

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

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

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

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.

I was increasingly disappointed how people in the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job. They are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth; they are there to see, 'How do I get on TV or become a YouTube star.'

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

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

Most journalists are idiots.

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 of their work.