Liz Smith The Latest Journalism Casualty

Gossip columnist Liz Smith has been dropped by the New York Post after 33 years. Col Allan, Editor-in-Chief of The Post, decided against renewing Smith’s contract. Smith’s column had already been cut from six days a week to three.

Asks the New York Times:

But wait. She is Liz Smith. She has everybody’s phone number. Didn’t she call Rupert Murdoch?

“Oh, yeah, I had a meeting with Rupert,” she said of the chairman of News Corp, which owns The Post.

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