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Sep 26 2008 8:51am EDT

Idle Chatter: Fact-Checking Obama; Dividends Dive

-It turns out Barack Obama's ads are full of lies, too. [NYT]

-Newspaper publishers Media General and Belo have both cut their dividend sharply. Will The New York Times Co. follow? [Bloomberg]

-Mike Huckabee's new Fox News show debuts tomorrow. It will be called Huckabee. No exclamation point, sadly. [AP]

-Cindy Adams says Sarah Palin is even skinnier than Rupert Murdoch's wife, Wendi. Can we expect a story from The Wall Street Journal about whether she's too thin to be president? [Cindy]

-Is this how bad things have gotten in the magazine business? The editor in chief of OK is leaving her job to move to Kentucky. Kentucky, people. [NYP]. □


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