‘Damage’, ‘gossip’: Both countable and uncountable

DAILY Trust of August 3 massacred the English language: “Desist from careless gossips, Lagos APC tells PDP” ‘Gossip’, as an informational mechanism, is non-count—but countable when it refers to purveyors: there are gossips in every workplace. Even where it is countable, it is usually singular. And this: you can have ‘latest, juicy, idle, common, office’ gossip; not ‘careless gossip’ as there is no ‘careful one’! This headline is lousy!
The Views page follows: “But he also has the right to repudiate it and seeks (seek) the protection of the laws of the land.”
“The tension in the land is palpable, sanctity of life has been violated as deaths stalk menacing (menacingly).”
Let us pause...