5 posts tagged “gossip”
Gossip is the fun part of the secrets landscape. Most fun when people are trying to hide sexual escapades or eccentric behavior of years ago, which when revealed hurts nobody. Of course, you do have to care about the people involved to care. But, if you care about "90210" or Tori Spelling or when she was and wasn't sleeping with whomever, then "sTORI Telling" is for you, although since this is both pointless and very old news, perhaps you want to consider if for your own mental health there might be other more important gossip or secrets to consider.
Revealing celebrity secrets is the "moral responsibility" of the press, according to VH1's "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" Pinsky. Gossip sites shouldn't be in the tell all to sell soap and titillate eyeballs. They have a higher calling. Interesting. Intriguing. A bit of a stretch .....
One person's nasty, spiteful rumormongering is another's bit of office fluff. As columnist Laura Lewis Brown writes, "Saying that other people's predicaments can be entertaining makes me feel guilty, like I'm a backstabber who talks about my friends in negative ways. Not true. ...Gossip is a popular game. [And] It's fun to think people are talking about me in a good way." Just make sure nobody talks about you in a "bad way." As if you could.
The distinction too few make is that a big of gossip is not the same as a secret. Knowledge of a secret gives the knower power, gossip just induces titillation. So, at least from this review, it appears that Jeffrey Tobin's new book, "The Nine," is misnamed [in subtitle] by suggesting it offers secrets. Readers won't get knowledge or power, only tidbits of intellectual pablum.
Celebrate the rationalization. It is not the sharing of a secret that is bad, it is -- according to a Professor McAndrew quoted in an MSNBC report -- "...only when you don’t [gossip] well that you get into trouble."
