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Idle Chatter: Wal-Mart Tries Selling Ads
Wal-Mart has launched free online classifieds to compete with newspapers and Craigslist. The pilot test included 30 million items. [WSJ]
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz says his former colleague John Solomon "has brought a sense of political balance" to his new home: the candidly conservative Washington Times. [WP]
Jack Shafer at Slate.com on the Vanity Fair-Clinton flap: "It's true that the Purdum's story is tawdry, but can any profile of the man whose name will forever be linked to Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Juanita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Sally Perdue, Dolly Kyle Browning, and Kathleen Wiley could be anything but tawdry?" [Slate]
Yahoo brass tried to arrange for all of its 14,000 employees to resign if Microsoft had bought the company, court records show. Yahoo also didn't tell employees about Microsoft's offer of $1.5 billion in retention bonuses. [Portfolio.com]
by George Quraishi
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