Bill Clinton: “I don't know that I'm the one to answer that. [Laughter] I think the answer to that is, you can't generalize about it. I…”

“I don't know that I'm the one to answer that. [Laughter] I think the answer to that is, you can't generalize about it. I must say, I am stunned from time to time at the stuff I read in the papers now about things in the National Government that are just purely based on gossip. I mean, I think you can get a rumor into print a little too easy now, I do, and even in the news magazines, some of them, although there seem to be different standards for different ones. But I wouldn't generalize. I think, by and large, there are still quite high standards of proof and fact that most people in journalism require before they go with stories. But I am kind of amazed, actually, of the stuff--most of it doesn't affect me at all--but the things that will get into print if you just say it is a rumor or ``it's alleged that'' or ``somebody said that.'' I think there's a little too much of that in some places, but it would be unfair to generalize about it. And by and large, it occurs either in the tabloids, which are a different class, or in journalistic media that basically live and breathe with political gossip, where there's more pressure to do that all the time. Congressional Budget Cuts”