Newsmongery

"[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."

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

"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.""