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Morning Links: Personal Errand Era Ends for Conde Nast Interns

Following Hearst suit, Conde Nast said to be overhauling internship programs. No more personal errands! [Fashionista]

The New York Times hired Politico deputy managing editor Bill Hamilton to be a D.C.-based national security editor. Mr. Hamilton was replaced by Gregg Birnbaum, the longtime Post reporter who barely escaped last year. He was promoted from Politico’s Breaking News team. [Politico] Read More

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Morning Links: Rush’s Advertisers Disband, Alt-Weeklies Unite

Michael Kinsley thinks we should be glad Rush Limbaugh ran his mouth. [Bloomberg]

Limbaugh on his advertisers leaving him: “Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices. We don’t do that.” [NY Times]

So we guess those two stations who dropped him were leftists huh. [Mediaite]

Alt-weeklies are banding together for content exchange. [Nieman Lab] Read More

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Morning Links: Ted Turner’s Compassionate Harem

When Robert Olen Butler’s wife Elizabeth Dewberry left him for Ted Turner, he emailed friends and colleagues: ”She will not be Ted’s only girlfriend. Ted is permanently and avowedly nonmonogamous. But though he has several girlfriends, it is a very small number, and he does not take them 
up lightly, and he gives them his absolute support when he does. And 
Elizabeth’s leaving me is as much about the three weeks a month she is alone as it is about the week a month she is with Ted.” [Hollywood Reporter] Read More