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Jun 13 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Yahoo, Tribune, Fake Steve Jobs

-The publisher of the Chicago Tribune is quitting, but he says Sam Zell's newly-hatched plan to wring every drop of efficiency out of his papers has nothing to do with it. [ChiTrib]

-Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, is jumping from Forbes to Newsweek. [NYP]

-The law has spoken: It's not a crime to climb the facade of The New York Times Building. Or it's just a minor misdemeanor, anyway. [NYP]

-Microsoft will probably ask federal regulators to block the search-advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google. [WSJ]. □


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