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Aug 04 2008 8:54am EDT

Idle Chatter: Newspapers on the Cheap, more

-Newspaper companies have never been cheaper -- and still nobody wants to buy one. [NYT]

-Time Warner has finished laying the bookkeeping groundwork necessary to spin off AOL's dial-up business and its content-and-advertising unit. [WSJ]

-Mad Men is boosting retailers' sales of 1950s-style suits and dresses and, oddly, Frank O'Hara poetry. [Ad Age]

-Paris Hilton's Republican mom said she didn't appreciate John McCain's "Celeb" ad, which compared Barack Obama to Paris and Britney. [MSN]

-The San Francisco Chronicle is offering buyouts to 125 employees, with layoffs likely if it doesn't hit the magic number. [SFGate via Romenesko]. □

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