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Feb 27 2009 8:51am EDT

Idle Chatter: CanWest, RDA, Facebook, more

-It's not only American newspapers that are going bankrupt. CanWest, Canada's biggest newspaper publisher, "may soon be nearing default on its crushing debt load and possibly facing bankruptcy." [NYT]

-Fortune has apologized to its readers after discovering that parts of an article it published by writer Barney Gimbel were plagiarized from a story in The New York Times Magazine. Gimbel has resigned. [NYO]

-Reader's Digest Association CEO Mary Berner says her company can afford to launch new magazines -- even though it's laying off employees and putting others on furlough -- because they're doing it on the cheap. [NYP]

-Facebook is asking its users to help draw up and vote on new governing policies for the site. [USAT]

-The Fairness Doctrine is officially dead after the Senate voted overwhelmingly not to resurrect it. Now will conservative radio hosts stop using it as a bogeyman? [B&C]. □

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