History Quotes / IfItBleedsItLeads

->''"It's a shame that this is [[MoralGuardians one of the only things]] I've seen mainstream media pick up in terms of ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'', at least for a lot of cases, is when there's been stuff like this that's been going on despite the fact that the ''Roblox'' platform has had awesome, amazing things that has came from it. And hey, negativity gets click, that's why you're watching this video."''

->''"In keeping with the WXLT practice of presenting the most immediate and complete reports of local blood and guts news, TV 40 presents what is believed to be a television first. In living color, an exclusive coverage of an attempted suicide."''
-->-- ''Last words of American television news reporter '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck Christine Chubbuck]]''', the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast''

->''"Anyone got raped and speaks English?!"''
-->-- ''[[UrbanLegend Apparently]] a true story about a British reporter asking this a group of Belgian tourists after they were taken hostage by rebels in Africa.''

->''"Dude, this shit's gonna go viral!"''
-->-- '''John Earle Sullivan''' filming Ashli’s Babbitt’s death.

->'''Creator/CharlieBrooker:''' "Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, there's generally more good than bad in the world. Unless you're watching the news, which likes to {{accentuate the negative}} at every turn."\\
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'''Dr. Park Dietz, forensic psychiatrist:''' "We've had twenty years of mass murderers, throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring.[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to sirens blaring]], and "The school day had only just begun when the attacker struck."[[/note]] Don't have photographs of the killer.[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to]] a black-and-white image of a spree killer, and "The 17-year-old's three-hour rampage ended in his own death."[[/note]] Don't make this 24/7 coverage.[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to]] "[[UsefulNotes/TheChancellorsOfGermany The German Chancellor]] is about to give her reaction. We'll bring that to you live."[[/note]] Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story,[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to]] "Carnage in the classroom, sixteen people are dead."[[/note]] not to make the killer some kind of AntiHero.[[note]][[OverlyLongGag Cut to]] "Dressed in black combat gear, the gunman opened fire at random."[[/note]] Do localize this story to the affected community, and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.\\
'''Charlie Brooker:''' In summary, then, not only does bad news always trump good news, but that bad news might itself actually help create more bad news. [[DeadpanSnarker Which is good news, if you're the news.]]
-->--''Series/{{Newswipe}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4 "Violence in the Media"]]

->''"Officials say there are still no reported casualties, which is truly unfortunate, as it makes for incredibly boring news."''
-->-- '''Richard Burns''', [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas WCTR]]

-->-- '''Max''', ''Film/{{Network}}''

->''You know I watched that rotten box until my head begin to hurt\\
From checkin' out the way the newsman say they get the dirt\\
Before the guys on channel so-and-so and further they assert\\
That any show they'll interrupt! To bring you news if it comes up!\\
They say that if the place blows up they will be the first to tell\\
Because the boys they got downtown are workin' hard and doin' swell\\
And if anybody gets the news before it hits the street\\
They say that no one blabs it faster, their coverage can't be beat\\
And if another woman driver gets machine-gunned from her seat\\
They'll send some joker with a brownie and you'll see it all complete''
-->-- '''Music/FrankZappa''', "Trouble Every Day"

->''"I don't really watch the news any more. I just have two old men sitting at the end of my room, staring at each other. On the hour, every hour, one of them shouts at the other one 'Terrorist!' And the other one shouts 'Paedophile!' And then a woman walks between them and says 'Rain expected.'"''
-->-- '''Creator/DylanMoran''', ''Off The Hook''

->''"Seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight."''
-->-- American mass murderer '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting#Perpetrator Christopher Harper-Mercer]]'''

->''"It suddenly hit me. That's what people want to see. That's what I'll give them, blood and gore."''
-->'''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generoso_Pope Generoso Pope, Jr.]]''', creator of the ''National Enquirer'' tabloid, describing his reaction to a gruesome traffic accident

->The more wonderful the means of communications, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict, gloomy editorials - these still seemed to be the main concern of the million of words being sprayed into the ether. Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether a bad thing: the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, [[GoodIsBoring would be terribly dull]].
-->--''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''

->''"It's a shame that this is [[MoralGuardians one of the only things]] I've seen mainstream media pick up in terms of VideoGame/{{Roblox}}, at least for a lot of cases, is when there's been stuff like this that's been going on despite the fact that the Roblox platform has had awesome, amazing things that has came from it. And hey, negativity gets click, that's why you're watching this video."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/KonekoKitten''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwuatDhhMbY "roblox got on the news AGAIN...and its cringeworthy"]]

->''"There's no news.... like ''bad news''."''
-->-- '''Elliot Carver''', ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''

->'''Professor Harold Monroe''': I mean, what's exceptional about a primitive tribe like the Yacumo being... terrorized, and forced into doing something they don't... they don't normally do?\\
'''TV Executive''': Come on, Professor, let's be realistic! Who knows anything about the Yacumo civilization? Today, people want sensationalism. The more you rape their senses, the happier they are.
-->--''Film/CannibalHolocaust''

->''peace is boring. violence goes viral.''\\
''who tunes in to watch *people get along?*''
-->--''VideoGame/WeBecomeWhatWeBehold''

->'''Tom Tucker''': Adult stuff. Adult stuff. Adult stuff. The world is scary. Adult stuff. Adult stuff. Scary people yelling in another part of the world. Adult stuff.\\
'''Stewie''': I wish Mom wouldn't watch the news in front of me!
-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Family Guy]]'', ''[[Recap/FamilyGuyS14E15ALotGoingOnUpstairs A Lot Going On Upstairs]]''

->'''Juanín:''' Tulio, today there's been... no robberies, no crimes, no injustices, no wars... doesn't it make you glad, as a human being?
->'''Tulio:''' OF COURSE NOT! This is a ''news program'', you hear me, a ''news program!'' WE ''LIVE'' OFF THE MISFORTUNE OF OTHERS! What do you want, for me to stare at the audience for half an hour!?
-->-- ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos''

'''Dr. Park Dietz, forensic psychiatrist:''' "We've had twenty years of mass murderers, throughout which I have repeatedly told Creator/{{CNN}} and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring.[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to sirens blaring]], and "The school day had only just begun when the attacker struck."[[/note]] Don't have photographs of the killer.[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to]] a black-and-white image of a spree killer, and "The 17-year-old's three-hour rampage ended in his own death."[[/note]] Don't make this 24/7 coverage.[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to]] "[[UsefulNotes/TheChancellorsOfGermany The German Chancellor]] is about to give her reaction. We'll bring that to you live."[[/note]] Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story,[[note]][[GilliganCut Cut to]] "Carnage in the classroom, sixteen people are dead."[[/note]] not to make the killer some kind of AntiHero.[[note]][[OverlyLongGag Cut to]] "Dressed in black combat gear, the gunman opened fire at random."[[/note]] Do localize this story to the affected community, and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.\\

->'''Tulio:''' OF COURSE NOT! This is a ''news program'', you hear me, a ''news program!'' WE ''LIVE'' OFF THE MISFORTUNE OF OTHERS! What do you want, for me to stare at other people for half an hour!?

->''News flash, read all about it\\
Here comes another scam and don't you doubt it\\
May make you laugh, but it ain't funny\\
I can't believe the things they do for money\\
Another show that needs to get rated\\
Just got to add a little more hatred\\
(We interrupt this program to tell you!)\\
Disco's out, murder's in\\
Kill it!''
-->-- '''Music/SuicidalTendencies''', "Disco’s Out, Murder’s In"

And all the boys in the newsroom got a running bet\\

She can tell you 'bout the plain crash with a gleam in her eye\\

-->-- '''Music/{{Nickelback}}''', "Dirty Laundry"

-->-- '''Music/{{Nickelback}}, "Dirty Laundry"

-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy]]'', ''[[Recap/FamilyGuyS14E15ALotGoingOnUpstairs]]''

-->-- '''Dylan Moran''', ''Off The Hook''

-->--'''WebVideo/KonekoKitten''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwuatDhhMbY "roblox got on the news AGAIN...and its cringeworthy"]]