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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.