But she said some of the coverage of the reshuffle was "distorted" and focused on "tittle-tattle".
The Blues will not officially comment but BBC Sport understands Chelsea consider the reports as tittle-tattle.
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Most of all, he deplores what he sees as its passion for trivia and tittle-tattle.
And she said the focus on the "tittle-tattle" would also put women off the idea of entering Parliament.
What happens if the rumoured details of Mr Clinton's misbehaviour in that same Oval Office become common knowledge rather than Internet tittle-tattle?
Those doors in Tokenhouse Yard will have to open up a bit more to the press and to inevitable tittle-tattle about potential suitors.
Tittle-tattle about the British royal family, Princess Diana's death, then the lurid White House sexual scandals have taken the art of front-page hype still further forward.
At a stroke, parlour tittle-tattle has become a legitimate news subject, testing the limits of privacy, free expression on the internet and voters' tradition of indifference to public figures' private lives.
The Met's defenders say the explanation for its soft-peddling is not conspiracy but capacity: it had better things to do with its time than worry about naughty journalists intercepting tittle-tattle.
"We all loved to tittle-tattle, " Cynthia would later explain.
This is far more serious than tittle-tattle about cocaine.
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Labour MP and former minister Denis Macshane said the act needed to be reviewed to cover the press and claimed many FOI request were simply designed simply to seek out "sensationalist tittle-tattle".
She criticised what she called the "tittle-tattle" around the reshuffle, saying it would put off women in particular from entering politics, but she refused to criticise the Prime Minister for having a smaller proportion of women in the Cabinet as a result of last week's changes.
Mr Goldsmith, who has been an MP since last year, said revealing the contents of the e-mails would have been "very uncomfortable" at a time when he was seeking election to Parliament, because of the revelation of "all kinds of tittle-tattle which I would have been better off without".
There is a fundamental difference between using a private investigator at any given time to turn around a story on tittle-tattle, or to fish for stories and monitor people's lives, and to make a careful, considered decision to carry out a breach of the law in order to expose wrongdoing.
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