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Sep 10 2008 8:45am EDT

Idle Chatter: The Literature of Sarah Palin, more

-Publishers are scrambling to sign up authors who can write about Sarah Palin, and at least one, the HarperCollins-owned Christian imprint Zondervan, will have a book out before the election. [NYO]

-Speaking of that unwieldy book-publishing process, titles on Why Real Estate Won't Go Bust and Fred Thompson's likely victory in 2008 are looking less than prescient now. [WSJ]

-The New York Daily News is giving staffers until Friday to decide whether to take one of 25 buyouts on offer. Interest is said to be high, despite the offer's not-especially-generous terms. [NYP]

-New York's attorney general is looking into whether Arbitron's Portable People Meters under-count minority radio listenership. [NYT]

-The European Parliament is trying to eradicate sexual stereotyping in ads, listing Mr. Clean as one example. Apparently in Europe housework is a stereotypically male thing. [NYT]. □

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