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Mar 27 2009 9:06am EDT

Idle Chatter: CNBC Ya Later; 'JAMA' Drama; more

-CNBC's Fast Money host Dylan Ratigan quit yesterday after months of feuding with his producer, according to Page Six. His contract expires next week and he's in talks with "other networks." [P6]

-A nonprofit watchdog group wants the Journal of the American Medical Association two suspend its editor in chief and another editor pending an investigation of claims that they tried to intimidate a researcher who criticized one of JAMA's papers. [WSJ]

-Americans spend 8.5 hours a day, on average, looking at screens of various kinds. [NYT]

-Katie Couric's Evening News is now beating Brian Williams's Nightly News in the ratings...in New York. [P6]

-Can't get enough newspaper parodies? Here's one of the Financial Times. [FT2020]. □


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