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Dec 15 2008 5:16pm EDT

Late Breaks: Regan, Wolff, Zucker, Biden, Blyth

-Time's Washington bureau chief is leaving to become Joe Biden's communications director. [The Page]

-Don't invite anyone who works at Marie Claire over to your house, unless you're a fan of bedbugs. [Gawker]

-Yup, Jeff Zucker is keeping Ben Silverman on as co-head of NBC Entertainment, in spite of all logic. [B&C]

-Michael Wolff and Judith Miller are in a spat over which of them is more unlikable. [Newser]

-Women's mag veteran Myrna Blyth has some ideas about why the industry is so badly positioned for a deep recession: "[M]agazine publishing, overall, is really a small business that for too long has acted big, often lavishing salaries and perks out of proportion to the profits a magazine as a business earns." [Wowowow]. □

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