Negative News Quotes

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day? Don't watch CNN. Don't read the New York Times.

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington Post' over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain.

You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories.