Bad news has good legs.

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

It's a joke. The Daily News is trying to destroy this gossip column, and Stern is a casualty of a paranoid billionaire who had an ax to grind with the Post.

The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.