The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
It's the tabloids, with their intense commercial need to get scoops to bring in readers, that run a regime of fear, where reporters are bullied, shouted at. That's where things go wrong.
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