There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
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In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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