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Mar 21 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Joe Klein Steps In It Again, more

-Besides Rupert Murdoch, Mort Zuckerman and Cablevision are also said to be kicking the tires at Newsday. [NYT]

-The History Channel has changed its name to, simply, History. But you can continue to call it The Hitler Channel if you like. [AP]

-How long until Time's Joe Klein apologizes for this? I'm setting the over/under at five hours. [Huffpo]

-This one's for all you journalists out there: Why is Lexis-Nexis so frequently useless at finding articles you know exist? [Time]

-Jon Friedman says the National Magazine Awards are "a crock" and "a popularity contest." On the plus side, there's an open bar. [Marketwatch]

-New York Post editor Col Allan says the killing off of PageSix.com won't affect Page Six, The Magazine. It will be completely unrelated when they shut that down. [WWD] ...


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