Negative Reporting Quotes

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

I love Justin Bieber. There are times where people only report negative things about him, but everyone forgets how incredibly talented he really is.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

The real news is bad news.

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.

Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

The good news does not make the front pages. The bad news does make the front pages.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Oh press - must you spread hate? Can't you just stick to being wrong?

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

The media loves negative spin.

The dirty little secret the media doesn't want to admit is that Trump generates such good content that they can't help covering him even when they hate him.