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• n  a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

• First, we must acknowledge Matt Drudge, the online rumormonger who finally exacted his revenge on Clinton for supporting Blumenthal v.
• But when confronted openly, the rumormonger suddenly feels that he must truly believe what he has merely been fantasizing.
• In the next stage, the rumormonger accents certain parts of the story that appeal to him.

• gossip
• gossiper
• gossipmonger
• rumourmonger
• newsmonger

News & Articles

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• Don't worry, Jon Heyman: You can vote for Max Scherzer without apologizing
  CBS' reporter/rumormonger Jon Heyman posted an oddly defensive column today about Max Scherzer and pitcher wins. This is not the first column of the season to advocate giving the Cy Young award to Scherzer for his (so far) 19-1 season, nor even the first to go through a tortured attempt at reasoning that boils down to, "Yeah, we know pitcher wins don't matter, but Scherzer has a lot of them so ...
  Aug. 27, 2013 - SB Nation
• If There's a Graphite iPhone 5S, It Had Better Look Nicer Than This
  Apple rumormonger du jour Sonny Dickson has outed the latest in a series of reputed scoops: An iPhone 5S in not white, black, or gold, but graphite. It sounds potentially lovely! It looks... not so much. Which is why it seems particularly unlikely that this is the real deal. Read more...        
  Aug. 26, 2013 - Gizmodo