Cindy Adams, check your messages! Mere days after Tina Brown poached the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz for the Daily Beast, the New York Post announced that Richard Johnson , its Page Six gossip editor for almost a quarter century, is moving to News Corp.’s “new digital ventures.”
Lloyd Grove
, Johnson’s Daily News rival earlier this decade, is already an
editor at large for the Daily Beast
.
There was always something a little bit virtual about Page Six, which did not run on the sixth page of the Post. Still, the Village Voice declared that the move means the page’s reign is ”
categorically, finally finished.
” The Internet: refuge for the exhausted.
