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Mar 31 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: 'Newsweek' Buyouts; Huffpo Puffs Up

-The weekend's other big news: Some 111 Newsweek staffers have accepted buyouts. Guess those new offices won't have to be quite so roomy. [Radar]

-Mort Zuckerman, perennial tire-kicker, is evidently serious about buying Newsday, even if it means outbidding Rupert Murdoch. I'll believe it when I see it. [Newsday]

-Al Gore is spending his Nobel Prize money on hookers and ammo. Just kidding! He's putting it behind an ad campaign about global warming, of course. [Ad Age]

-Play ball, dahhhlings! The Huffington Post is adding a sports section. Also, books and foreign news. [NYT]

-The Wall Street Journal looks at what it will take for Barry Diller to carry out his five-way spin-off plan. [WSJ]. □

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