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Feb 19 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Emeril, AMI, CBS, CNBC, Mensa...

-Martha Stewart is buying Emeril Lagasse's media properties in a $50 million deal. [WSJ]

-American Media's numbers have, at long last, taken a turn for the better. [WWD]

-An autism advocacy group is angry at CBS after a contestant in question called people with autism "retards." The contestant in question works for an autism foundation. Actually, make that "worked." [AP]

-Read, and disagree heartily with, Mensa's list of the smartest TV shows of all time. [NYP]

-CNBC's Donny Deutsch has a saying: "Positive is the new black!" Try not to gag. [Liz]

-It's time to start reading Paranoia, the only magazine that will give you the straight dope about microphysics, the Secret Council of Ten, and the reptilian conspiracy. [WaPo] ...


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