Gossip, a four-part docuseries, traces the culture-shaping influence of the
New York Post, Cindy Adams, and Rupert Murdoch’s transformation of
American media
The docuseries Gossip opens with a needle drop on the media timeline: “In the early 90s, gossip became very hot.”
Gossip, of course, predates the early 90s by the entirety of human history, industrial celebrity gossip by decades; stars of Hollywood’s so-called golden era were promoted, hemmed and hawed by the likes of Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and Walter Winchell. Showtime’s Gossip, a four-part series directed by Jenny Carchman, is concerned with a particular tentpole of American gossip: the brash, throaty New York tabloids at the intersection of wealth, politics and
Hollywood, when all-caps, exclamation pointed headlines about Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt, the Menendez brothers, Bill Clinton’s relationship with a
White House intern, and Princess Diana’s every move shaped the national conversation.