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Jan 15 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Olbermann, Nikki Finke, 'GMA'

-Good Morning America executive producer Jim Murphy is shouldering the blame for Diane Sawyer's ultra-softball interview with Katie Holmes yesterday. [P6]

-Former Marie Claire editor Lesley Jane Seymour is the new editor in chief of More, replacing Peggy Northrop, now at Reader's Digest. [Mediaweek]

-Playboy tried to offset the voluminous negative mail it received over its Keith Olbermann Q&A by soliciting a sympathetic response from an Olbermann partisan. [Blogging Olbermann]

-If the writers are striking but Nikki Finke isn't blogging about it, are they really striking? And, if not, could we get some more new episodes of Heroes already? [DHD]

-The new editor of the right-wing Washington Times says he plans to make the paper "fair and balanced." Where have we heard that before? [WaPo via Romenesko]

-Apparently Portfolio has a new publisher. I learned this by reading WWD. Thanks a lot, coworkers. [WWD]. □


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