most of us had the right thought, except we had it backwards….

the new york post is a rag. it is just a terrible newspaper. the owner is rupert murdoch who stabbed his native country australia in the back and settled in america. who needs him?

one of the most terrible features in this bird cage liner is something called “page six” which is a cornucopia, a potpourri of gossip. the huddled masses turn to it to find out the latest gossip.

the winner of this week’s “hey abbott award” goes to richard johnson, the editor of “page six” who would have us believe that he didn’t have the slightest clue that one of his henchmen, jared paul stern, was making people pay so that there would be no bad things written about them in “page six.”

there is a good chance that jared is going to the slammer. he certainly will lose his job….not because the new york post really cares, but because its competition, the daily news, is making a real big deal out of all of this.

like we said in our headline, we got it backwards. all this time, knowledgeable street people felt you had to make a payoff to have something good said about you in “page six.”

little did we know that mr. johnson operated his empire backwards.

the media in the united states, both television and print, is such crap. most of the news comes from the associated press and reuters and cnn and all they do is shovel their own particular political agendas and their own particular product hustles.

hopefully mr. johnson will get a cell next to mr. stern.