A Tiny Bit of Trash

Some noteworthy items today:

• XM satellite radio today announced that it will be broadcasting the Live 8 concerts live from London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Philadelphia.

• Tysons Corner-based Gannett offered a mid-year financial assessment today, including that USA Today is expecting a 1 percent circ decline. Editor and Publisher explains, “Gary Watson, the head of Gannett’s newspaper division, said the company was seeing good results from its online operations, with a 60% ad revenue gain and non-daily publications. He said there were still mixed signs in its classified advertising business, with employment ads ‘quite solid’ but the outlook for automotive advertising uncertain.”

• Urban affairs correspondent Maria Hinojosa has left CNN.

• A grumpy patron of Charlie Palmer’s steakhouse today tore into the restaurant in Tom Sietsema’s WP chat, and then everyone else tore into the grump.

• Speaking of chats, in today’s Ask the Post feature KidsPost editor Tracy Grant gushed about Harry Potter–the page will be “teasing” readers a “countdown clock” for the Half-Blood Prince, and the Sunday page on July 17 will be full of Potter facts and trivia.

• Gelf Magazine is out with another edition of its fantastic corrections column.

• And, exercising a blogger’s perogative to write about anything even if it’s not on topic, the trailer of the forthcoming March of the Penguins is the cutest and funniest thing we’ve seen in a while. It opens in D.C. July 1.

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