Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Post is, is inconsistent with the mission and dignity of the Washington Post." Printing gossip, he went on, is "pandering to the voyeurism of a celebrity-struck public. When you then combine [this] with the doctrine that says we are not responsible for the factual nature of the rumor at all, only for the fact that it is a rumor, then you have given your gossip columnist a license to disseminate lies...
Once again, the Washington Post was finding itself widely criticized throughout journalism, but the Agronsky show was a special embarrassment. Agronsky polled his four television panelists: Would they have passed along the rumor, as the Post had, that Blair House was bugged while the Reagans were staying there before the Inauguration? A chorus of nos. What made the poll piquant was that aside from TIME's Hugh Sidey, all of the panelists (James J. Kilpatrick, Carl Rowan, George Will) are columnists in the Post, and the Agronsky show itself is owned and produced by the Washington Post Co. Such...
Michael P. Drazen, a former Boston University student, said his brother awakened him to tell him about a rumor from New York's WNEW...
Others were there on slimmer evidence--Daniel L. Orange, the M.I.T. freshman who was first in line, siad "a friend of a friend of a friend" heard a rumor about the concert on a Springfield radio station late Tuesday night...
...much gossip is retailed merely for the enjoyment of the exchange, the simple human interest in the passing pageant of follies, it also has subtler purposes. Gossip-which concerns people, while rumor concerns events-is usually an instrument with which people unconsciously evaluate moral contexts...