I was reading the other day something that somebody posted about Chinese telephone company getting fined multiple times over a billion dollars for illegal trading practices with the US. Then the next article linked was about Donald tweeting good things about the company because they were investing in one of his Asian resorts.
This would be pretty corrupt, if true, and very, very newsy.
Instead, it is all wall to wall Stormy Daniels.
Everybody already knows that Trump is a sinner when it comes to cheating on his wife. I imagine his wives know it most of all, because he would have been cheating with them on the previous wives.
It speaks to his character, and it is important enough, I guess, when electing a president.
Now it is just titillation though, schadenfreude of people enjoying the misfortunes and sexual embarrassments of another.
That is all gossip is. It also usually involves some kind of sexual titillation too, on behalf of the gossiper, because the talk of sex is what makes the gossip stimulating in the first place.
That is why gossip is a sin too. Gossipers seek to ruin the reputation of another for their own vicarious pleasure.
In the case of Trump, he doesn't even have a reputation. Everybody knows the kind of life he has led with all his womenfolk. He has been in the news for thirty years, maybe more.
From the days of Chuck and Di, we have been exposed to the fact that powerful men often lead very seedy lives.
But this is not news. It is what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn criticized about the West in a 1978 Harvard speech about having too much information, and there needing to be a right not to know.
Gossip is like pouring diarrhea into the listener's ear. It is constant. Be it Whitewater, or corruption in the Trump White House, this is corruption that we need to know about. It is about potential abuse of power. But when it comes to white spots on dresses, this is too much information.
Gossip is not about news or freedom of the press. It is about titillation and schadenfreude.
Too much information.