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((short description|News story in a gossip column where subjects are anonymous))
((refimprove|date=August 2012))
A '''blind item''' is a [[news story]], typically in a [[Gossip columnist|gossip column]], in which the details of the matter are reported while the identities of the people involved are not revealed.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/10/crazy-days-and-nights-enty-interview|title=The King of the Hollywood Blind Item Reveals All|last=Bonner|first=Mehera|work=Vanities|access-date=2018-04-28|language=en))</ref> The invention of the blind item is credited to [[William d'Alton Mann]] (1839&ndash;1920), publisher of ''[[Town Topics (magazine)|Town Topics]]'', who often used it for [[blackmail]].<ref>((cite magazine |title= Gossiper Silenced |date= Jan 25, 1932 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743014,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070310153711/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743014,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 10, 2007 |access-date= Aug 8, 2008 |url-access=subscription ))</ref> [[Communication privacy management theory]] relates to the ideas of [[information privacy]] that influence this form of communication.<ref>((Cite journal|last1=McNealy|first1=Jasmine|last2=Mullis|first2=Michaela Devyn|date=March 2019|title=Tea and turbulence: Communication privacy management theory and online celebrity gossip forums|journal=Computers in Human Behavior|volume=92|pages=110–118|doi=10.1016/j.chb.2018.10.029|s2cid=59528457 |issn=0747-5632))</ref>

The advent of gossip websites brought about more public debate and speculation about the individual blind item stories, and also about the ethics surrounding the practice.<ref>((Citation |last=Ortner |first=Heike |date=2013 |title=Not So Blind Items: Anonymous Celebrity Gossip Exposed |url=http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/legacy/mit8/papers/Ortner_MIT8_Blind_Items.pdf ))</ref> Audiences might use blind item material as a shared topic of conversation with peers, and perhaps even as a conversational entry point to a sensitive topic that is personal to them.<ref>((Cite thesis|last=Petersen|first=Anne Helen|title=The Gossip Industry: Producing and Distributing Star Images, Celebrity Gossip and Entertainment News 1910-2010|date=May 2011|publisher=The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/11454))</ref>

==See also==
*[[Circular sourcing]]
*[[Defamation]]
*[[Innuendo]]
*[[Roman à clef]]
*[[Rumor]]
*[[De-identification]]
*[[Anonymization]]

==References==
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