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Mar 17 2009 8:58am EDT

Idle Chatter: Late Night Obama, CNBC Crackdown

-Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to appear on The Tonight Show on Thursday. Meanwhile, he's skipping the annual Gridiron Club dinner for Washington journalists; no president since Grover Cleveland has done that. [LAT]

-Some former staffers of the shuttered Rocky Mountain Times are hoping to launch a website called In Denver Times that will pick up where the paper left off, but first they need to sign up 50,000 subscribers. [Westword]

-A coalition of liberal activists and economists are calling on CNBC to be tougher on Wall Street and to hire commentators with a history of being right. [AP]

-Sopranos creator David Chase is developing a new miniseries for HBO about the early days of Hollywood. [Variety]. □

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