Gossip column

A gossip column is an article in a newspaper or magazine written by a gossip columnist. The purpose of the column is two-fold; it mainly serves as a vehicle for spreading news, rumors and innuendo about movie and television celebrities, famous athletes, politicians, and members of society, usually for entertainment purposes. It is also often used by well-known personalities, particularly celebrities and society members, to publicize themselves or their projects, or to counteract bad press or gossip that has recently surfaced about their lives. In the era when the movie studios controlled nearly all aspects of the lives of their movie stars, the gossip column was used more as a publicity tool and to counteract whispers about celebrity secrets that could have severely damaged not only the reputation of the movie star in question, but the movie star's box office viability as well. From the ‘30s through the ‘50s, the two best-known - and competing - Hollywood gossip columnists were Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. Having fallen into ill-repute after the heyday of Hopper and Parsons, the gossip column saw a comeback in the ‘80s. Today, many reputable magazines which would once have considered the idea of publishing a gossip column to have been beneath their stature, are including them for entertainment purposes, providing the hoi polloi with a glimpse into the lives of the rich and famous. There are also entire publications, the tabloids, that deal primarily in gossip, often with little or no factual material in them. Look up Gossip in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word gossip may refer to: the act of spreading news from person to person, especially rumors or private information: see chat the news spread through the act of gossiping While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common... Article generally refers to a particular artifact. ... 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Look up Gossip in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word gossip may refer to: the act of spreading news from person to person, especially rumors or private information: see chat the news spread through the act of gossiping While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Publishing is the activity of putting information into the public arena. ... Entertainment is an amusement or diversion intended to hold the attention of an audience or its participants. ... Look up rich on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Categories: Disambiguation | Stub ... To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a website. ... A tabloid is a newspaper — especially in the United Kingdom — that uses the tabloid format, which is roughly 23½ by 14¾ inches per spread. ... Look up Gossip in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word gossip may refer to: the act of spreading news from person to person, especially rumors or private information: see chat the news spread through the act of gossiping While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common...