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Article: Here's the dirt ... on gossip.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2003
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Byline: Lorraine Kee
Gossip. Not everyone does it. But almost everybody does.
At least that's what I've heard.
"Deep Throat" did it. So did Henny Penny. Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper were famous for it. So was Walter Winchell, who once said, "Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid." It is alternately called our "national pastime" and our "communal voice."
The first gossip? Maybe it was the serpent that whispered into Eve's ear. Nowadays, a lively debate wages over whether too much of it passes for fact in newspapers. Forget journalism _ gossip may be the first draft of history. By the ...