“When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.” StoriesIndividualMediaBuddhismTypeUnhappyBitterBentRamaRatingBoostTabloidsCirculationInnuendo Author:Frederick Lenz
“During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.” CitiesViolenceChildhoodMediaMassNewspapersAdvertisingUnpredictable1960sCirculationShanghaiPortents Author:J. G. Ballard
“There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.” BelieveStoriesMediaConflictPressesConservativeDrivenFavorsIdeologyWowBiasRatingBoostCirculation Author:Ken Auletta