quotations about tabloids
We use celebrity "news" to perpetuate this dehumanizing view of females, focused solely on one's physical appearance, which tabloids turn into a sporting event of speculation. Is she pregnant? Is she eating too much? Has she let herself go? Is her marriage on the rocks because the camera detects some physical "imperfection"?
JENNIFER ANISTON
"For the Record", Huffington Post, July 12, 2016
Why tabloids? It's a question I often ask myself as I read them. As a person who almost exclusively reads classic novels and obsesses over classical music, it seems abnormal for me. But that's precisely why I need tabloids. Reading the latest gossip, whether it's true or not, helps me lose some of the stress that's keeping me up at night. I don't want to have to think, and tabloids let me avoid that, filling my mind with inane information that I'll never have to remember or ponder.
MARIANNE T. AGUILAR
"Guilty Pleasures: Tabloids", The Crimson, October 8, 2016
In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
Conversations with John Le Carré
Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.
ADRIAN GRENIER
attributed, IMDb
Tabloids are important for more than just their role in publishing contemporary legends as fact; tabloids, themselves, bear a striking resemblance to contemporary legends.
GAIL DE VOS
Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature
There's nothing wrong with tabloid stories, period. If you're a journalist--and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it--part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth. I can't guarantee that I'm going to come up with it, but certainly part of how I see myself is in pursuit of some underlying reality. When journalism becomes severed from that, and it doesn't matter if it's tabloid journalism or any other kind of journalism, for that matter--if it becomes severed from pursuit of the truth, it's no longer about journalism.
ERROL MORRIS
interview, IndieWire, July 13, 2011
No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
RACHEL ZOE
"How Rachel Zoe Became Hollywood's Most Powerful Fashion Player", Hollywood Reporter, March 9, 2011
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
JERRY SEINFELD
attributed, Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture
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
So I tracked him down and gave him a few suggestions about how to live life and stay healthy and he took my advice. Because that's just unacceptable. They can do anything they want to me -- and most tabloids have -- but not my kid, not my pure, innocent little baby. She didn't ask to be in this circus.
JOHNNY DEPP
"Johnny Depp Esq.", Esquire, February 2000
All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.
ETHAN HAWKE
The Daily Telegraph, June 19, 2004
There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.
PINK
USA Today, February 14, 2006
When the tabloids are dubious enough about their own stories to end the headline with a question mark, you can be sure that even they can't believe they're writing this crap.
ANONYMOUS
"Trump's White House hit list, America's most hated mom, and sex scandals, in this week's tabloids", Boing Boing, June 21, 2017
Bigfoot, space aliens, Elvis Presley, ghosts, and the like all make their appearance in the tabloid world with amazing frequency. In this way the tabloids are carrying on ancient folkloric traditions, relating the sort of tales grandma used to tell in hushed tones late at night as the family huddled by the fireplace.
JENNIFER TRAIG
Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades
Tabloids are one facet of life among many. Tabloids, like any kind of cultural phenomenon, exist alongside and because of other cultural phenomena. They complement the star system, the other popular media, the class system, and the gender system. They exist because of television, newspaper, movies, and a vast range of folk narratives and values.
S. ELIZABETH BIRD
For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids
The tabloids are parodies of the mainstream press.
MARK ALLEN PETERSON
"Aliens, Ape Men and Whacky Savages: The Anthropologist in the Tabloids", The Best of Anthropology Today
The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
ELIZABETH OLSEN
attributed, IMDb
The tabloids may turn history into what Barthes has described as myth, connecting it to the present in a highly significant and politically charged way.
MARTIN CONBOY
Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language
The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers. It's like blaming a scorpion for not being moral. They just sting people. That's what they do. Sometimes they might sting someone who deserves it. But it's not through any moral imperative.
STEVE COOGAN
"Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook", The Guardian, September 5, 2011
I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world. I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy. Not to cloud our minds with things that don't matter.
ANGELINA JOLIE
interview, Today Show, June 8, 2005