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There's a little housecleaning over at Page Six today: The News reports that the column has let go of all of its freelance employees, presumably in reaction to the Payola Six scandal. Along with alleged extortionist Jared Paul Stern, freelancers Fernando Gil, Lisa Marsh, and Chris Tennant have been sacked; cutting them loose is editor Col Allan's way of "tightening ship." Brilliant, because they're the real problem, obviously the ones to blame for the column's pay-for-play culture. They may only show up one or two days a week, but you can bet they just poisoned the office with their unethical, part-time presence.

UPDATE: Chris Tennant telephones — so old-fashioned, that one! — to let us know he departed the Post two weeks ago. Entirely amicably, he says, which makes this in no way a sacking, at least in his case.

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