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Mar 07 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Validating Your Greed Since 2008

-"Don't disrespect rich people's respect for money." That's the unofficial motto of The Wall Street Journal's new luxury magazine, WSJ.. What, did you think it would be "Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"? [WWD]

-Jerry Seinfeld is in talks with NBC about a new sitcom that sounds a lot like his old sitcom. [NYP]

-NPR CEO Ken Stern has resigned in a disagreement over the direction of the public radio network. [WaPo]

-Interview has hired a new editor in chief and publisher. Related: Famed fashion photographer Bruce Weber has asked to have his name taken off the masthead. [NYP, The Daily]

-TV Newser runs the numbers and determines that CBS's Early Show performed slightly better in the ratings during Shelly Ross's term as executive producer, but probably not enough to justify the massive tsuris she caused. [TV Newser]. □

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