Personal Essays

Gossip, when discussed formally with respect to its merits, almost always receives a negative judgment. Given an oportunity to listen to gossip, however, most people will likely take advantage of the opportunity. Further, armed with information or speculation, many individuals who, on an intellectual level, condemn gossip will themselves become gossipers.

To assess gossip, as a concept, one must know what it is. Gossip is the spreading of bits of information from one person to another in a continuous series of actions. The information may be fact, may be part fact, or may be rumor, or speculation. Gossip is so called behind the scenes information. In other words, it is information which those who it concerns would prefer not become common knowledge. Additionally, gossip is information which is of an intimate, personal, or sensational nature.

An example of gossip occurred in the presidential primary campaigns in 1988, when a rumor was spread that Gary Hart was having a clandestine sexual affair with a young female model. A Miami newspaper investigated the story, and printed it. The resulting denials and eventual acknowledgement of the truth of the Gossip by Hart caused his public confidence to suffer so badly that he was forced to withdraw from the race for the

Democratic nomination for president. Was gossip bad in this instance? It certainly had negative outcomes for Gary Hart. On the one hand, Hart's sexua

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