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Apr 28 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Mort Zuckerman, Hannah Montana...

-Mort Zuckerman thinks he can get Newsday on the cheap -- or, at any rate, without topping Rupert Murdoch's $580 million bid -- because a sale to him would have fewer regulatory hurdles. [NYT]

-That naughty Annie Leibovitz got 15-year-old Miley "Hannah Montanah" Cyrus to pose "topless" (meaning wearing a bedsheet rather than a shirt) for Vanity Fair, and we, as a nation, are scandalized. [AP]

-The Takeaway, WNYC's new morning show, debuted today. Will it put the hurt on Soterios Johnson & Co.? [WSJ]

-The American Family Association isn't down with "explicit open-mouth homosexual kissing," on As The World Turns or anywhere else, dammit. [Ad Age]

-The Capital Times, a Madison, Wis., newspaper, has converted to online-only publication. [NYT]

-In other farewells, New York Daily News gossip columnist Ben Widdicombe's calling it quits. [Gatecrasher]. □


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