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Aug 15 2008 8:51am EDT

Idle Chatter: Dolans Get Firebranded, more

-Will Firebrand Partners do to the Dolans what it did to the Sulzbergers? The activist hedge fund just bought a 4.9 percent stake in Cablevision. [WSJ]

-The makers of cold-prevention remedy Airborne have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that their advertising was deceptive. All told, they'll pay $30 million to make the case go away. [Forbes]

-The Source, which shut down after going bankrupt, is relaunching. [AP]

-Mike and the Mad Dog are going their separate ways. The Mad Dog, aka Christopher Russo, is leaving their sports talk radio show. [NYP]

-Aggressive advertising of home equity loans played a part in the mortgage crisis. [NYT]. □

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