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Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts to compete with The Post.

There is nothing worse than a tattler, so I keep my mouth shut.

RUDY: Cousin Michael’s been a known liar and a tattler for years.

Newsies have filled their papers, tattlers, and scandal sheets with Alfred's exploits—gambling losses and several marriages and expensive tastes.

The numbers in species such as the gray-tailed tattler that don’t rely heavily on the mudflats remained about stable over that time, they discovered.