· Page Six prints a sighting of former NBC exec Brandon Tartikoff eating dinner in Los Angeles. Still, because Tartikoff died in 1997, they have to issue a correction today. [Page Six]
· Consider this your warning of the forthcoming apocalypse: defunct and unknown American Magazine will soon reincarnate as Chicken Soup for the American Soul. Barf. [NYP]
· Howard Fineman, political journalist of little or no import, tells talk radio DJ Don Imus, "One reason why Chris Matthews' Sunday show is so successful is that the producer there tells Chris, 'Shut up!'" Naturally, Fineman sticks his tale between his legs and apologizes online a few hours later. [NYDN (2nd item)]
· TV Guide plans celeb mag. Not at all a crowded marketplace, no sir. [WWD]
· Boston newspapers, bored to death in the wake of the DNC mass exodus, begin to pick at each others' scabs. [New Yorker, Anonymous Outsider]
· Heads are rolling at the newly-consolidated Random House/Ballantine, but Seabiscuit writer Laura Hillenbrand is still getting paid. Does this seem unfair or is it just us? [NYP]