This family's angry, crying, sad, and lost
And it's awesome, cause all of it's real!
I do the illusion of news and while you think you're choosing the views that you feel...
More as this develops live
Only on the Channel 5 News!
And it's awesome, cause all of it's real!
I do the illusion of news and while you think you're choosing the views that you feel...
More as this develops live
Only on the Channel 5 News!
— Bo Burnham, "Channel 5 News"
Wayne Gale: I thought a bond developed between us!
Mickey Knox: No. Not really. You're scum, Wayne; you did it for ratings. You don't give a shit about us or anybody else except yourself; that's why nobody gives a shit about you. That's why "helicopters" were not "deployed."
Mickey Knox: No. Not really. You're scum, Wayne; you did it for ratings. You don't give a shit about us or anybody else except yourself; that's why nobody gives a shit about you. That's why "helicopters" were not "deployed."
Hairdresser: See, that's what I couldn't understand: USA Today said Thor was the one who took down that big mothership, but People magazine said it was Tony Stark.
Janet Van Dyne: Well, let's just say that Tony owns a fifty-two percent stake in People magazine, so I'd go with USA Today, Andrew...
Janet Van Dyne: Well, let's just say that Tony owns a fifty-two percent stake in People magazine, so I'd go with USA Today, Andrew...
Jethro Puller: Retraction? Why would I print a retraction? Man's suicide proves he was guilty, at least in my book.
Chief Gillespie: Well, then, I think your book is lacking a few important pages. For instance, without a charge, trial, you condemned the man.
Puller: I didn't kill Leonard Grissom.
Gillespie: You assassinated his character.
Puller: If the man had had any character, he wouldn't have killed himself.
Gillespie: You drove him to it.
Puller: I have a right to inform the public of—
Gillespie: You have no right to destroy a man's reputation.
Puller: Yes, I do. I'm the press.
Gillespie: Say what?
Puller: I am not legally obligated to worry about any man's reputation. Including yours.
Chief Gillespie: Well, then, I think your book is lacking a few important pages. For instance, without a charge, trial, you condemned the man.
Puller: I didn't kill Leonard Grissom.
Gillespie: You assassinated his character.
Puller: If the man had had any character, he wouldn't have killed himself.
Gillespie: You drove him to it.
Puller: I have a right to inform the public of—
Gillespie: You have no right to destroy a man's reputation.
Puller: Yes, I do. I'm the press.
Gillespie: Say what?
Puller: I am not legally obligated to worry about any man's reputation. Including yours.
— In the Heat of the Night ("Perversions of Justice")
Detective Fronteiri: You filmed him dying.
Lou Bloom: That's my job; that's what I do, I'd like to think if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.
Lou Bloom: That's my job; that's what I do, I'd like to think if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.
"Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough."
— Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane
"Never believe what you publish, and never publish what you believe."
— Richard Dees, The Night Flier
Heather: Gail, please help me! Gail, please!
Gail Hailstorm: I'd like to help you out, kid, but it's sweeps!
Gail Hailstorm: I'd like to help you out, kid, but it's sweeps!
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.
— Humbert Wolfe, "Over the Fire"
Melanie Daniels: In case you're interested, I was pushed into that fountain.
Mitch Brenner: Without any clothes on?
Melanie: With all my clothes on. The newspaper that ran that story happens to be a rival of my father's paper.
Mitch Brenner: Without any clothes on?
Melanie: With all my clothes on. The newspaper that ran that story happens to be a rival of my father's paper.
"Proof? What would I need proof for? I’m in news, you moron. I don’t have to prove it. I just have to print it."
— Charles Augustus Magnussen, Sherlock
"Sorry, guys, guess you'll have to capitalize on someone else's trauma today!"
— Kate Callahan, Criminal Minds
"A bad journalist's pen can do as much damage as a bad doctor's scalpel."
— Brazilian Politician Enéas Carneiro
Her nose for skeletons in people's closets helped her climb the ladder of success. Harrishee's method worked thusly: "Print my story, as is, or I tell everyone about your (mistress, criminal record, dealings with the mayor, fondness for boys)."
She didn't work exclusively for one paper, but had articles published in all of the important rags of the day. As the turn of the century came and went, she moved through a succession of vessels, building up her list of "contacts" until she even managed to debut in some foreign newspapers. No story was too lurid or sensational. As a former Servitor of Malphas, she delighted when her words drove groups toward mutual suspicion and violence.
Harrishee's biggest triumph came during World War I. She had worked hard to stir up America's fear of German immigrants, and finally published a series of "exposés" which resulted in hysteria, mass arrests of innocent citizens with Germanic ancestry, and two lynchings. The Boss smiled, and gave her a Knighthood.
She didn't work exclusively for one paper, but had articles published in all of the important rags of the day. As the turn of the century came and went, she moved through a succession of vessels, building up her list of "contacts" until she even managed to debut in some foreign newspapers. No story was too lurid or sensational. As a former Servitor of Malphas, she delighted when her words drove groups toward mutual suspicion and violence.
Harrishee's biggest triumph came during World War I. She had worked hard to stir up America's fear of German immigrants, and finally published a series of "exposés" which resulted in hysteria, mass arrests of innocent citizens with Germanic ancestry, and two lynchings. The Boss smiled, and gave her a Knighthood.
—In Nomine: Superiors 2: Pleasures of the Flesh
