Antidote Quote by Scott Pelley

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

— Scott Pelley

Journalism is organized gossip.

— Edward Eggleston

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

— Andrew Marr

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

— Nick Denton

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

— Justin Timberlake

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

— Mona Simpson

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Gossip is conversation about people.

— Gore Vidal

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

— Gregory David Roberts

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

— Brian Stelter

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

— Joyce Carol Oates