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Legendary gossip columnist Liz Smith is leaving the NY tabloid pages: CityRoom spoke to the 86-year-old who explained that NY Post editor-in-chief Col Allan sent her a letter that he was not renewing her contract for her three-times-a-week column, stating, “Like so many other newspapers around the nation, we are buffeted by unprecedented economic gales." Smith joked, “I figure that without having to pay my salary"—$125,000/year—"The Post will immediately go into the black" and did admit to meeting with Rupert Murdoch to protest, "He said he wouldn’t interfere with Col Allan. Well, isn’t he right? Shouldn’t publishers believe in their editors?” (And Murdoch does believe in Allan.) But this gives Smith more time to work on Wowowow.com, the website she co-founded with other female boldface names (and where she just asked New Yorker editor David Remnick his thoughts on the newspaper business conundrum)—plus she plans to syndicate a five-day-a-week column.
NY Post And Liz Smith Part Ways
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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that windbag's time has come and gone...
She's 86. How relevant is anything she says anyway?
Is her finger still on the pulse? Does she still have one herself?
One less page I can automatically skip over.
Which implies that you actually read that rag. Yellow journalism, Page 6, meet my number 2 hole.
3 articles a week, 52 weeks = $801 per article. Not bad if you can write that article in a few hours.
that's just what the Post pays her to publish, not write, a column that other papers pick up as well. She only writes it once, but get paid several times over. THAT's not bad, and works out to be much more than $801. per.
What will page 6 be without her?
Clearly they'll use that money to give Delonas a raise.
I hope I'm not working when I'm 86.
what about the dude that writes blind items? how can you get paid to make shit up? oh wait. it's the post
At 78, Rupert Murdoch himself is fit to be pushed out a window...but not before he makes a try to get the NY Times. He wants it badly to hang on his trophy wall, next to the WSJ but the Sulzbergers would rather whore themselves on a darkened Jersey City street and later resell the crack than let that shitbag near the family jewels.
This woman was an integral part of the iconic (I hate gossip FYI) Page 6 for so many years. The POST will CERTAINLY LOSE readership over this. A very short-sighted way to view long-range problems. You will only LOSE for this NY Post.
Are you being serious? Someone will actually stop reading the Post because Liz Smith is gone?