Some
decades ago, the Hollywood correspondents and publicity writers
invented the Gossip, a subdivision of journalism consisting in
propagating words and reports of gossip, according to the dictionary
defined as idle talk or writing, rumour or scandalous report, half
truths or half lies, about others or things that may or may not be true.
That's a lot of tasks this little word represents, and seems to me to
fit lots of people, things or situations.
Born and bred in Hollywood, gossips were important part of work where writers were employed to write flatteries, and paint beautiful verbal pictures of talent and virtues of their own stars, and character damaging half truths or even total lies of the rest employed by competitive studios. Now gossips have reached all sectors of the society for a multitude of motives, industrial, commercial, social and political. In general, all people with certain degree of relevance are subjected to the law of jungle.
On the surface, gossips are looked upon with disdain and depreciation but, in practice, almost all of us are at one time or another guilty of it to a certain degree, however tiny. The ex president of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez shut up a group of reporters when he was asked about his extra marital relationship with a certain lady in his government, saying bluntly: "Please, have some dignity." Well this was already sufficient to serve the purpose of the reporters' aim, publishing that the ex president should perhaps also answer another question: "What lesson he can give to someone who alternate wife of convenience with convenient lover?"
Gossip is usually indignant, therefore it moves well amongst indignities, like not too long ago, the Baroness Thyssen who obliged her daughter-in-law to prove that her son Borja was indeed the father of the baby. Borja and the poor child had been subjected to the investigation twice, with positive results both times, but now the Baroness is asking for a 3rd test to obtain the DNA just one more time! The petition is to me as indignant as the acceptance by the young couple, but they had been guaranteed the vast inheritance in exchange for that offensive request. It's obviously not the time to argue about dignity or indignity.
I admit I am totally confused with this business of dignity or indignity of the high society.
Born and bred in Hollywood, gossips were important part of work where writers were employed to write flatteries, and paint beautiful verbal pictures of talent and virtues of their own stars, and character damaging half truths or even total lies of the rest employed by competitive studios. Now gossips have reached all sectors of the society for a multitude of motives, industrial, commercial, social and political. In general, all people with certain degree of relevance are subjected to the law of jungle.
On the surface, gossips are looked upon with disdain and depreciation but, in practice, almost all of us are at one time or another guilty of it to a certain degree, however tiny. The ex president of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez shut up a group of reporters when he was asked about his extra marital relationship with a certain lady in his government, saying bluntly: "Please, have some dignity." Well this was already sufficient to serve the purpose of the reporters' aim, publishing that the ex president should perhaps also answer another question: "What lesson he can give to someone who alternate wife of convenience with convenient lover?"
Gossip is usually indignant, therefore it moves well amongst indignities, like not too long ago, the Baroness Thyssen who obliged her daughter-in-law to prove that her son Borja was indeed the father of the baby. Borja and the poor child had been subjected to the investigation twice, with positive results both times, but now the Baroness is asking for a 3rd test to obtain the DNA just one more time! The petition is to me as indignant as the acceptance by the young couple, but they had been guaranteed the vast inheritance in exchange for that offensive request. It's obviously not the time to argue about dignity or indignity.
I admit I am totally confused with this business of dignity or indignity of the high society.
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