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Jun 09 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: What's Sam Zell Thinking? More...

[Why hello there, readers. Remember me? I'm back from vacation, slightly tanned, more or less rested and ready for some media bloggin'. Let's get to it. -J.B.]

-Is Tribune Co.'s plan to slash newsroom jobs and shrink newsholes an actual strategy for saving its newspapers, or just a form of slo-mo euthanasia? [NYT]

-Tim and Nina Zagat's employees will have to keep holding it for a while longer: The restaurant-guide business is no longer for sale. [WSJ]

-The former publicist for hedonism haven Plato's Retreat claims CBS stole an idea he pitched and turned it into Swingtown. [P6]

-Jeff Jarvis thinks Google should be put in charge of the federal government. [NYP]

-Simon Dumenco detects a new and welcome skepticism in The New York Times's attitude towards wealth porn. [Ad Age]. □

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