FishbowlDC: DC journalists took on publicists last night in the annual Hacks vs. Flacks softball game. Just like our Hacks v. Flacks Guitar Hero showdown earlier this month, the DC Hacks handily defeated Team Flack 12-9. (Slideshow above).

Folio: BusinessWeek publisher McGraw-Hill reported its financials for the first half of the year today. Here’s a run down: net income was down 22.4 percent during the first six months of 2009, to $233.8 million compared to $301.5 million last year. Revenues for the period declined 9.6 percent to $2.6 billion.

Mediaweek: American Media Inc. has suspended publication of Mom & Baby magazine and is cutting Natural Health‘s print run to eight issues a year, down from 10. Natural Health will now be produced by the staff of Fit Pregnancy, who used to create Mom & Baby. The health magazine’s publisher, Eileen Chiafair, and editor, Mary Bolster, have left the company.

SFGate: Tim Goodman rants about Ben Silverman‘s departure from NBC and Jeff Gaspin‘s future. “That Silverman will be remembered for continuing to run NBC into the ground is a legacy he can shake by, say, tomorrow, because it’s not too difficult to assume that the next person will do precisely the same thing,” he said.