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Oct 29 2008 8:55am EDT

Idle Chatter: MSNBC Goes Deep; Joke's on McCain

-MSNBC president Phil Griffin says 24-hour cable news is for people who "want depth" in their journalism. Related: I just snarfed coffee all over my keyboard. Drat you, Griffin! [NYO]

-Keith Kelly has details on who's moving up and who's moving out at Time Inc., where a major reorganization is in the works. [NYP]

-Late-night comedians are overwhelmingly targeting John McCain and Sarah Palin with their jokes, leaving Barack Obama relatively untouched. [AP]

-Downsizing patrol: BusinessWeek owner McGraw-Hill said it eliminated about 270 jobs company-wide in the third quarter. [Bloomberg]

-Meanwhile, Gannett is cutting 10 percent of its workforce, although its flagship property, USA Today, will be spared. [BW]

-Will tonight's half-hour infomercial turn viewers off Barack Obama? Or are the talking heads just raising that question so that the have something to discuss now that the polls have stabilized? [Politico]

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