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Apr 24 2009 8:50am EDT

Idle Chatter: NPR Cutbacks, Jon Meacham, more

-NPR is laying off more employees -- although no one in programming this time -- and also mandating company-wide furloughs, benefit cuts and a freeze on merit raises. [WaPo]

-Randi Rhodes, the former Air America host who was suspended from that network after calling Hillary Clinton "a big fucking whore" in a comedy routine, has signed on with Premiere Radio Networks, the on-air home to Rush Limbaugh. [WSJ]

-Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, who this week won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson, is working on a new book about George H.W. Bush. [NYP]

-Gawker is on a mission to ambush Jesse Watters, the O'Reilly Factor producer who handles the show's ambush interviews. [Gawker]. □

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