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Nov 20 2007 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: CBS Strike, Angry Kanye, FCC...

-Unionized CBS News writers have voted to authorize a strike. [TV Newser]

-Entertainment Weekly has hired away the publisher of Ad Age, Scott Donaton, to be its new publisher. [NYP]

-The New York Times is considering dropping the filed-on date from its datelines. [Radar]

-Kanye West is extremely mad that an article In Harper's Bazaar inaccurately described the mural in his house that depicts him being carried through the heavens by angels. Really. [WWD]

-Robert McDowell, one of the three Republicans on the five-person Federal Communications Commission, is opposing chairman Kevin Martin's plan to impose a la carte pricing on the cable industry. [THR]. □

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