Richard Johnson’s wedding may have been totally ruined by Jared Paul Stern and Ron Burkle … and Campbell Robertson … but thank Jesus, Moses, and Suri, not all is lost.
Page Six The Magazine will return to fill the void of glossy celebrity gossip that is obviously missing from all our lives. And, from the sound of things, a lack of JPS is not going to change much in the way of the Post’s/Page Six’s reporting policy.
Page Six reporters routinely cultivate relationships with publicists who feed them and other reporters items about celebrities spotted in the restaurants, hotels and nightclubs they represent.
Placing an ad in the Page Six magazine may be another way for advertisers, and the publicists they hire, to stay on friendly terms with The Post, said Robert S. Boynton, the director of the magazine program at New York University and the author of “The New New Journalism.”
“Put it this way: it’s a small price to pay for the possibility of getting favorable coverage,” Mr. Boynton said.
What was that delectable little Stern quote again? Something like “It’s a little like the Mafia. A friend of mine is a friend of yours.”
Oh, mafia schmafia.
Page Six, the Magazine, Is Returning (With an Edge, of Sorts [Julie Bosman, New York Times]