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Jul 18 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: 'Runway' Run-In; Dubuque Rebuke

-Jeff Zucker and Harvey Weinstein argued in court yesterday over whether Weinstein promised NBC Universal the right of first refusal on Project Runway. [Adweek]

-People in Dubuque, Iowa, are smart enough to read The New Yorker and appreciate the oh-so-subtle irony of its Obama cover. [NYT]

-Bill O'Reilly's in a snit because the Associated Press obituary suggested the Bush White House may have had a not-entirely-great relationship with the press. Why, the nerve! [Billoreilly.com]

-Do editorial cartoonists have trouble drawing Barack Obama because he's black? [The Root]. □


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