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Walter Winchell had great aspirations toward journalism and was a man who used gossip to gain power and influence the minds of people all over the United States and the rest of the world, all the while setting the standards for today’s news and tabloid world. From the late 1920’s to the 1950’s, Winchell “…added extraordinary zest to the language of tabloid journalism” (Weinraub1). As a journalist, Winchell had an uncanny ability to create his own terminology to make headlines, even if gaudy or tasteless. Through his use of eye-catching jargon, Winchell was able to captivate the minds of the entire country, having his column published in over two thousand newspapers, at the same time hosting the top-rated radio program as a reporter (Gabler 421). “He turned gossip into tawdry power. Walter Winchell, who climbed high and fell far, still scintillates us today” (Weinraub 1). Winchell reached over fifty million people with his journalism and gossip, and had an enormous impact on the way people of the time examined, criticized, and thought about what was happening in the world and the people who were involved. Winchell was born in 1897 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia and was raised in poverty