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Nov 24 2008 8:18am EDT

Idle Chatter: Michael Phelps, Fast Food Mercenary

-Alpha Media, which publishes Maxim and Blender, has violated its debt covenants and is likely to be taken over by creditors. [WSJ]

-Rachel Maddow owes her overnight success on MSNBC to viewers from "a Twitter-savvy, podcasting generation that has hankered for someone more like them." Also, she suffers from cyclical depression and has read newspapers since she was four. [Newsweek]

-Christiane Amanpour is getting her own nightly show on CNN International; it will also be re-edited for weekly broadcast on CNN U.S. [NYT]

-Why did Michael Phelps sign on as Subway's spokesman when everyone knows McDonald's is his fast food of choice? [Ad Age]

-The "slow blogging" movement is all the rage among people who are burned out by the Twitterization of media. [NYT]. □

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