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Jan 22 2009 5:23pm EDT

Late Breaks: 'NY Times,' 'WSJ,' Fake Anthrax

-The New York Times Co. may be paying sky-high interest on that $250 million it's getting from Carlos Slim, but at least it gets to deduct all the interest from its taxes, thanks to smart accounting. [Fortune]

-Speaking of the Times, why did an ostensibly non-partisan newspaper throw what amounted to an Obama victory party on Inauguration Day? [Daily Intel]

-That powder that some wacko mailed to Wall Street Journal higher-ups yesterday? It was flour or something similarly harmless, not anthrax. [WSJ] http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133972. □

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