"bad news travels fast" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Robert L. Genua, Managing Your Mouth: An Owner's Manual for Your Most Important Business Asset",
          "text": "After all, reorganizations, personnel changes, new policies on subjects such as travel and expense reports, are everyday occurrences, but the rumor that the Vice President of Sales has a son at college who was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, aha! That is another matter. That is news! Once put out on the grapevine, it will travel with blinding speed around the circuit. Bad news travels fast.",
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          "text": "Bad news travels fast, especially when it travels by satellite. I had picked up the receiver with a sense of dread. I expected to hear on the other end an obscene caller, a local news person looking for fresh dirt, a concerned but nosy friend.",
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          "ref": "2012, J.W. James III, North Beach Road, page 66",
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        "Bad news circulates quickly because people often circulate it everywhere."
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          "word": "no news is good news"
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          "word": "ill news spreads apace"
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
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          "word": "الأخبار السيئة تنتشر بسرعة"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
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          "word": "huonot uutiset kiirivät nopeasti"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "Schlechte Nachrichten verbreiten sich schnell"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
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          "word": "złe wieści szybko się rozchodzą"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "word": "as más notícias viajam depressam"
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  "word": "bad news travels fast"
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      "word": "الأخبار السيئة تنتشر بسرعة"
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      "word": "huonot uutiset kiirivät nopeasti"
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      "word": "as más notícias viajam depressam"
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  "word": "bad news travels fast"
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