Marriage Quote by Connie Chung

A veteran journalist insisting she “ignores the tabloids” is doing two things at once: refusing the game and acknowledging the scoreboard. Connie Chung’s phrasing is defensive in the way media veterans get defensive when they know the machine will keep running whether they feed it or not. “Honestly” is the tell. It’s a preemptive credibility marker from someone trained to measure every sentence for how it will be edited, replayed, and misconstrued.

The line “it comes to our attention” is the quiet admission that tabloid culture has a gravitational pull. You can avoid buying the paper; you can’t avoid being turned into copy. Chung frames tabloid exposure as passive, almost meteorological - something that happens to you. That’s a strategic posture for a public figure whose currency is authority: if you look too invested, you validate the premise that the story matters.

Then she lands on the bluntest possible verdict: “But it’s always false.” Not “inaccurate,” not “misleading,” but false - moral language, not technical language. It’s a boundary-drawing move that protects more than privacy; it protects professional identity. For a journalist, being the subject of fabricated narrative is uniquely corrosive, because it mirrors the worst accusation you can level at your own industry. The subtext is a plea for category clarity: there’s reporting, and there’s a parallel economy of attention where truth is optional.

Contextually, it reads like a late-20th-century media détente: mainstream figures trying to starve tabloids of oxygen while conceding they’ve already infiltrated the air.