Gossip

[Johntee]

Gossip,
The sip
Of words
From lip to lip
An ear to hear
Of secrets spent
In covert moments
Arrayed as entertainment.
The past, once sport of front
Page news, the wormy corpse
Of youth's excess now digitised has
Passed to Social Media from Press.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

And faster, it seems at times, than the old fashioned "ear to hear" format. Now one byte is fed to millions instantaneously.