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Sep 19 2008 4:49pm EDT

Late Breaks: RNC Fallout; Fox vs. McCain; more

-The city of St. Paul says it will drop all charges against journalists who were arrested in the course of covering protests at the Republican National Convention. [Star-Tribune]

-Score one for the fairness and the balance: Fox News told the McCain campaign to stop using the voice of one of its correspondents in an anti-Obama attack ad. [Politico via Huffpo]

-Jim Newton, the editorial-page editor of the Los Angeles Times who quit over the summer, is returning to the paper, apparently because publisher David Hiller isn't there anymore. [Tell Zell via Romenesko]

-At least one of the celebrities in the second wave of Microsoft's new ad campaign is on record as a serious Mac-ophile. [Gawker]. □


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