Tabloid Journalism Quotes

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

“Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“[T]he purity of emotional response seemed to have been sullied by a tincture of thought.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.”
― Simi Sunny, The White Sirens

“I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes,' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.”
― Simi Sunny, The White Sirens

“Never trust a tabloid over a human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“My Road to Recovery'? I heard myself suggest, and it struck me, not for the first time, that the tone we journalists adopt can be horribly flip. Several times. over the course of my career, I've caught myself skimming over the surface of a subject's life, without pausing to reflect on the realities of their joys and suffering. Yet it was true that something about George's disintegration mesmerised people. Which would sell more papers, I wondered: his redemption or his failure?”
― Celia Walden, Babysitting George: The Last Days of a Soccer Icon