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Dish
How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show
by Jeannette Walls

Gossip. It’s more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket
tabloids. It has, like it or not, become a mainstay of American pop culture.
In Dish, industry insider Jeanette Walls gives this provocative subject its
due, offering a comprehensive, serious exploration of gossip and its social,
historical, and political significance. Examining the topic from the inside
out, Wall looks at the players (celebrity, publicist, reporter): the origins
of gossip, from the birth of People magazine to the death of Lady Di; and
how technology – including the Internet – will continue to change the face
of gossip.

Perennial/HarperCollins, New York, 2001, first Perennial edition, 376 pages,
5 ¼” x 8”, trade paperback.

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