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Apr 30 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Katie Fades; 'The O'Hillary Factor'

-Despite ratings for Evening News reaching yet another all-time low, CBS's profits were up 14 percent in the first quarter. [NYT]

-Bill O'Reilly is interviewing Hillary Clinton this morning, for the first time. It'll air tonight and tomorrow. [TV Newser]

-It turns out Vanity Fair's "exclusive" interview with James Frey wasn't exclusive. It's almost like that guy is some kind of dishonest-type person! [NYO]

-Arianna Huffington says she was banned from NBC and MSNBC for writing mean stuff in her new book about Tim Russert. [NYP]

-Penguin's Portfolio imprint paid $350,000 for a new book by Fortune's Peter Elkind about Eliot Spitzer. Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg is also writing a book. [NYO, NYP]. □


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