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Jun 25 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: OK for 'Newsday'; Hurra for Payola

-Forget about Meet the Press for a second. Who will replace Tim Russert as NBC's Washington bureau chief? The Observer thinks it'll be former Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker. [NYO]

-The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have given a speedy thumbs-up to Cablevision's acquisition of Newsday. [Newsday]

-Some well-known journalists have taken government money to appear on Al Hurra, the State Department-backed Arabic news channel. [ProPublica]

-Now that it's clear Hillary Clinton isn't going to be president, the Vogue writer who was supposed to profile her is free to badmouth her to reporters. [WWD]

-Fox News is running an ad for Bill O'Reilly's show that's unkind towards Keith Olbermann. It's almost as if they don't like each other. What is up? [TV Newser]. □

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