I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

Aimee Bender

Tags: gossip sensationalism

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I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

Emily Eden

Tags: murder mysteries detective-stories sensationalism

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Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

John Irving

Tags: truth rumors sensationalism

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We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It's interesting when people die -
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry

You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Don Henley

Tags: tv press callousness sensationalism dirty-laundry infotainment tabloids

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He was after a sensational story and this, of course, could not be constructed out of mere truth; not out of officially released truth, anyway. It was essential that the news-reading public should feel, first, that the community was in danger and secondly that people—well-off people, “official” people—who ought to have known better, were to blame for it.

Richard Adams

Tags: truth news sensationalism

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