"Between the editorial and the gossip column, those are the two pages everyone runs to every week, " he said.

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Dog News co-founder and editor Eugene Zaphiris even writes a gossip column, called the Gossip Column, that some subscribers read before anything else.

WSJ: A Magazine Gives Dogs Their Days

In spite of the impression given by the New York Post's Page Six gossip column, it's not really the partying Manhattan girls and their Wall Street heir boyfriends who rule the Hamptons during the summer these days.

BBC: Escape from New York

The same dissembling does not occur with the New York Post and its gossip column Page Six.

NEWYORKER: Search and Destroy

To occupy the indolent, column upon column is filled with idle gossip, which can only be procured by intrusion upon the domestic circle.

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In the once rarefied fishing village of Saint-Tropez, the 300-foot super-yachts and private jets of the new-nouveau riche were gassed up and fruit-of-the-month-vodka-stocked, the Estonian "special-events models" booked, the guest lists of bold faces edited to meet gossip-column requirements.

WSJ: Death of a Playboy

She's fleetingly the voice of her generation, but she never speaks in the book which we read as though it were a gossip column.

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