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USAT launches The Oval blog Edited by Memmott. (USAToday.com)
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Payne's too quiet departure From Newsday. (Maynard)
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Conde Nast's "January surprise" Staffers still waiting for it. (NY Observer)
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Forbes fires 19 From magazine and website. (All Things D)
Gupta offered surgeon general job CNNer wants it. (Washington Post)
Harvard Business Review's new editor Is Adi Ignatius. (Boston Globe)
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SALEM: Well, all three have presented a variety of problems, but I would have to put Garry Trudeau at the top of the list, only because that’s about as close as we ever came to getting sued. He did a week on Frank Sinatra receiving the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor that an individual can receive, and he did a week on Sinatra, just a blistering week, with alleged Mafia ties, etc., etc., and we had lawyered it inside, out, and backwards, and but that didn’t stop Sinatra and his lawyers, and we had some exchange of mail, and I really thought that this could be it, this could be the test of the First Amendment, but finally Sinatra’s lawyers backed off, but it was touch and go and our lawyers in the situation were terrific. The people we got problems from, of course, was the insurance company.
