Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Jewell's ordeal should remind us how quickly our news media can turn into tools of gossip and slander. The news media has a right and a responsibility to report on issues that concern us as citizens. That includes the right and the responsibility to report on law enforcement investigations and court proceedings. But where there is a right there is not always a responsibility. Sometimes, the news media has a right to report but a responsibility...
Harry doesn't see what any of this has to do with him, so Osnard explains. Not only do Panama City's elite gather for fittings and gossip at Pendel & Braithwaite; Harry also personally tends to both the current Panamanian President and the general in charge of the U.S. Southern Command. "You're God's gift, Harry," Osnard says. "Classic, ultimate listening post." After the carrot comes the stick: "Why blow the whistle on old Braithwaite, make a fool o' you to your wife and kids, break up the happy home? We want you, Harry. You've got a hell...
...press should magnify wrongdoings when they matter, not when they involve a presidential haircut. It is irrelevant whether the press constitutes the cause or the effect. What we know is that journalists have not risen above the desire for gossip; they have not embraced the ethic of their trade; instead, they have kow-towed to the public thirst for all the trash not fit to print...
...passes for news--seems to be everywhere. Sometimes it blares at us with banner headlines and sensational TV come-ons. Other times, it just drones, a kind of Muzak for current-events obsessives. News is chewed over by TV pundits, railed about by talk-radio hosts, nibbled at in gossip columns, debated over the Internet--relentless, insistent, inescapable...
...recent memory. "A lot of tension went out of the news when the cold war ended," contends ABC News president Roone Arledge. "It's not a life-or-death matter whether you watch the news each night." The public's attention is turning from substantive news to celebrity gossip; we've gone from the age of news to the age of entertainment...