Word: rumoring
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When the Washington Post's "Ear" column passed along a rumor two weeks ago that the Reagans' guest quarters in Washington had been bugged just before last January's Inauguration, an outraged Jimmy Carter demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit. Last week the Post responded in print, with an editorial that may have set a new standard for journalistic sophistry. "There are a lot of 'we's' at the Washington Post," it began, "but the one you are about to hear from comes about as close as you can get to being...
...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...
...state and the next U.S. President, why did the story not rate full investigative reporting and Page One headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove to win a libel case...
...none of the recent Conrad books is more manageable-or readable-than Roger Tennant's new study. Tennant examines both the work and the self-manufactured legend, carefully separating rumor, romance and fact. The result is a concise work that offers a new understanding of the Pole, born Josef Konrad Korzeniowski, who became a great writer in a language he had difficulty speaking...
...country where infiltration and escape would be so difficult for the hit man. The attack could also have been the work of Abu Daoud's enemies within the Palestinian guerrilla movement, where motives are always obscure. Or, confounding all the experts, it could even have been, as Warsaw rumor had it, merely an affair of the heart...