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Seen schmoozing in a pricey Tribeca loft: supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, whom the New York Post's gossip column Page Six has called a "party-boy billionaire," and Page Six contributor Jared Paul Stern. Also present, but unknown to Stern: an FBI agent and a video camera. They were there to record what Burkle--who had chafed at uncomplimentary and, he thought, untrue items about him in the column--believed was a $220,000 shakedown for kid-glove coverage. The FBI believed it too: the agency has launched a probe into extortion allegations...
Page Six, a column so attentive to veracity that it usually runs on page 12, is the Brangelina of the tattle trade. For gossipists, journalistic ethics can be an oxymoron. Many have accepted meals, jewelry and plane trips from folks hoping for a kind word. And the items they run are not always the truth, not even truthiness. More like speculative fiction--Proust for the prurient...
...sincerely hope they think harder about the thousands of young people marching in the streets, trying to protect their mothers and fathers. That might not be a revolution, but it is a start. Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...place I will call home for the next three years—well, let’s just say that I’ll only be going back to Denver for the sunlight.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu. His column appears every third Thursday...
Matthew A. Gline ’06 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...