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Mixed Media

by Jeff Bercovici

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Oct 26 2007 4:45PM EDT

-No wonder the California wildfires are getting billed in the press as the "anti-Katrina." FEMA employees have been passing themselves off as reporters at press conferences. [WaPo]

-Fresh off her first nude scene, Natalie Portman is guest-editing an issue of Scholastic Math. That ought to get those little horndogs to sit up and pay attention. [Newsday]

-Fox News is asking the McCain campaign to stop using a clip from the recent Republican debate in its ad attacking Hillary Clinton. [The Caucus]

-Time Inc. is developing a subscription-sales system dubbed "the Netflix of magazines." [Ad Age]

-F.C.C. chairman Kevin Martin doesn't seem to be backing down from his controversial rule-review timetable. [TV Week]

-Quiz: Fox News personality or porn star? [Radar]

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