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NYP Radio Columnist Out After Stern Points out Conflict of Interest (Radar)
John Mainelli, the New York Post writer who irked Howard Stern by reporting a rumor Tuesday that he would return to terrestrial radio with his tail between his legs, has left the paper after receiving an ultimatum from editor-in-chief Col Allan.

Hugo-Oprah: Chavez U.N. Remark Sends Chomsky Book Sales Rocketing To #1 (FishbowlNY)
Hugo Chavez's remarks Wednesday at the U.N. — where he urged world leaders to read Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance — sent Chomsky's online book sales rocketing to the top of Amazon.com's bestseller list, up from #20,664 before the speech. NYT: Despite Chavez's death assertion, Chomsky's alive — and swamped with e-mail. GalleyCat: Chomsky's publisher goes back for more copies.

NYT Rising to the Challenge (Eat the Press)
Michael Massing: The New York Times has in some ways become the voice of the opposition in this country. Day after day, I've been looking at the Times and have been struck by how much they've been willing to run stories exposing incompetence and wrongdoing and documenting things that have been going wrong around the world.