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Dec 28 2007 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Bhutto, Blitzer, more...

-Which media giant's stock fared the worst in 2007? No surprise here: It was Time Warner. [NYP]

-HarperCollins is moving up the publication date of Benazir Bhutto's upcoming book in light of her assassination yesterday. [NYP]

-Weirdly, Bhutto had confided her suspicion that Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf might have her assassinated in advance to CNN's Wolf Blitzer. [Huffpo]

-Apple is talking to movie studios about signing up with an iTunes rental service. [NYT]

-Was that Wall Street Journal story on how the McClatchy board fully supports CEO Gary Pruitt a good thing for McClatchy? [Jack Flack]. □


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