Dish Quotes

“Elvis Presley’s death was a turning point in news coverage;”
― Jeannette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show – An Insider's Provocative History of American Pop Culture and Celebrity Tabloids

“Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story,”
― Jeannette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show – An Insider's Provocative History of American Pop Culture and Celebrity Tabloids

“cannot avoid the temptation of wondering whether there is any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want.”
― Jeannette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show – An Insider's Provocative History of American Pop Culture and Celebrity Tabloids

“With the Internet, characters like Drudge could pursue—without the constraints and rules imposed by editors and institutions—”
― Jeannette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show – An Insider's Provocative History of American Pop Culture and Celebrity Tabloids

“Freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one,”
― Jeannette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip Became the News and How the News Became Just Another Show – An Insider's Provocative History of American Pop Culture and Celebrity Tabloids