Media exaggeration Quotes

Everything isn't breaking news. You can't go to DEFCON One just because Sanjay Gupta found a new moisturizer.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

I think my influence on Donald Trump is way, way lower than what mainstream media has said.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

People are just really overreacting. It's just feel good music. We at Virgin are in no way promoting sex or whatever these media outlets continue to print.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.

Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it's nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.