Richard Johnson, editor of Page Six and one of the most powerful gossip columnists, has reluctantly confessed in the New York Post, to accepting cash payments from New York restaurant owner Nello Balan. Balan has been routinely praised in Page Six, the famed and widely read gossip page of the Post. Now, it seems, celebrity gossip has gotten dirty, and this clown has taken cash, but the bigger question is, “Where’s mine?”

An internal statement says that “accepting freebies, graft and other factors [is] not only condoned by the company, but encouraged as a way to decrease the newspaper’s out of pocket expenses.” What it doesn’t say is that fancy dinners and fat stacks of cash don’t actually qualify as “the newspaper’s out of pocket expenses”, unless your pockets are moth bitten and holey.

In some cases, the Post’s editor in chief admitted that the “bribes were unethical”, but what’s more alarming is that this guy actually called them bribes. It’s not his first day on the job, it’s odd he seems unaware that people are recording these things.

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