Meaning of newsmongery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gossip.
   uncountable
2. The act of spreading gossip.
   uncountable
3. Journalism, especially the type that is sensationalist.
   uncountable

Examples

“[S]ince one told one's intimate friend all that one knew,—and often a great deal⟳ that one didn't know⟳,—the tale-bearing, and news, and so on, of one god's-sib to another began itself to be called god's-sib or gossip, until now, when all manner of scandal and news[-]mongery has come⟳ to be universally called gossip.”

“Instead, the Age declared, of 'merely noticing the misdemeanour, which would have⟳ been the course most consonant not only with public decency, but also with public justice, they gloat on it as a kind of god-send in newsmongery and recur to it with most damnable iteration'.”

“Take⟳ care of gospel gossiping, of inquiring about places and individuals, merely for the sake of newsmongery.”

“However, while signifying Mr. B's wealth and enhancing the significance of Pamela's marriage, this sizable downstairs population could also be perceived by the contemporaries as a hotbed for newsmongery and a network of guerrilla spies routinely invading the master's privacy.”

“A correspondent, confessing himself as yet unknown to Fame—a circumstance he appears to consider⟳ unaccountable, and which we ourselves are unable to explain⟳, at all events on the score⟳ of constitutional modesty—writes to us, adopting the above signature, with a somewhat authoritative request⟳ that we shall engage⟳ him for the weekly supply⟳ of certain articles of newsmongery, which he declares indispensable to the permanent success of our publication, (a necessity we had not previously contemplated), and, for the superior production of which, he recommends himself above all living writers, on the singular plea that he seldom looks into a newspaper, and labours under a Doctor-Johnsonian inaptitude to "read⟳ books through."”

“He was simply angered by the outrageous publicity that the Haight Independent Proprietors had created to develop⟳ new markets for the merchandising of their crap—angry about how their newsmongery was drawing a disproportionate number⟳ of young kids to the district that was already overcrowded—thousands of young, foolish kids who fell for the Love⟳ Hoax and expected to live⟳ comfortably poor and take⟳ their place⟳ in the district's kingdom of love⟳.”

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