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Feb 11 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: Sam Zell, Unrepentant Potty-Mouth

-The Wall Street Journal ran twice as many front-page stories on politics last month as it did in January '04. [NYT]

-Sam Zell is sorry about all the profanity he's been spewing on his tour of Tribune Co. newsrooms. Except he's not sorry at all: "Extremism in the pursuit of opportunity is not a vice." [LA Observed]

-Two CBS News journalists are missing in Basra, Iraq. [AP]

-Is NBC courting trouble with the FCC by rerunning the Brian Williams-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live? [Eat The Press]

-Ray "Benzino" Scott and Dave Mays, who were tossed out at The Source two years ago, are launching a new hip hop magazine, Monsta. [Mediaweek] ...


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