Holbrook New Media Audio Feed

Liam Neeson (suggested by Jake Lanham)   “Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?”   The job of a journalist is to gather information and then tell the public, slanted in a way that seems interesting and exciting to them. Celebrities have traditionally had trouble with journalists who are constantly prying into their private lives hoping to find shocking things they can disclose. Paparazzi are another breed altogether, almost rabid in their devotion to getting compromising images of celebrities to sell. How about your own situation? Even if you are not a celebrity, there are people around who are trying find out private things about you they can disclose to others. These intrepid individuals are called gossips. Gossip is a tradition as old as communication. The gossip feels the need to know things others don’t so they can ‘WOW’ everyone with the secret knowledge in order to gain importance for themselves. The gossip just isn’t happy with normal facts however, and it usually takes somethi