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Apr 13 2009 8:53am EDT

Idle Chatter: Tribune, Glenn Beck, Kurt Vonnegut...

-The bankrupt Tribune Co. has received a subpoena from the Labor Department, which wants to know more about the employee stock-ownership plan that enabled Sam Zell to buy the company while putting up little of his own money and paying minimal taxes. [WSJ]

-He'll make you laugh, he'll make himself cry: Glenn Beck is going on tour as a stand-up comic. [AP]

-All those marketers experimenting with paying bloggers and Twitter users to hype their wares may soon find themselves subject to new regulations imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. [Ad Age]

-Kurt Vonnegut is set to follow Michael Crichton as the latest dead author with a new book coming out. Of course, neither of them can hold a candle to Mark Twain, who has an all-new collection coming out this month despite the considerable handicap of being deceased these past 99 years. [AP]

-Magazine publishers have picked the middle of a recession as the best time to raise their cover and subscription prices. [NYT]. □

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