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Sep 05 2008 9:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Leave Our Pit Bull Alone

Thousands of Us Weekly readers are reportedly canceling their subscriptions to protest the magazine's treatment of Sarah "Babies, Lies and Scandal" Palin. [MSNBC]

-Some American Media bondholders aren't thrilled about David Pecker's plan to postpone paying them back without giving them all that much in return. [NYP]

-Katie Couric and Chris Wallace are among the best interviewers at getting their subjects to go off their scripted talking points, according to Alessandra Stanley. [NYT]

-It's a good thing Brit Hume's retiring, because he sounds really burned out. [WaPo]

-One of the first titles from Harper Studio, the new publishing unit devoted to changing the economics of the book business, will be a cookbook by Emeril Lagasse. [NYP]

-Republican convention organizers had to scrap Sarah Palin's introductory video after Rudy Giuliani kept talking 13 minutes after he was supposed to stop. [The Caucus]. □

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