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Jun 10 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: But Do They Have a Paddle?

-Six leading cable companies are banding together to create a national targeted-advertising platform. And they're calling it "Project Canoe," which is cute, don't you think? [WSJ]

-The Sporting News, like U.S. News, is going from weekly to biweekly publication, and adopting other measures, such as new columnists and a daily email blast, meant to halt its slide into obscurity. [NYT]

-In a survey of newspaper editors, 44 percent said they'd place at least some restrictions on whether and how their staffers would be allowed to blog in their free time. [Bloggasm]

-Barnes & Noble has opted to shelve the "incredibly mediocre" new book by truth-improving humorist David Sedaris in the fiction section. [Media Mob]

-HBO had to change the ending of its Roman Polanski documentary after learning that the original ending -- which claimed that a judge had offered to allow the filmmaker to return to the U.S. without facing charges as long as it could be televised -- was false. [NYP]. □

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