• Two years after he was booted from MSNBC and CBS Radio for making racist comments, Fox Business is now in talks to team up with Don Imus. [LAT]
• Is Hachette selling Elle? The company seems to be hedging. [AdAge]
• Magazine publishers are allowing advertisers to slap their ads just about any place they want these days. They're also planning to keep printing those annoying subscription cards until the end of time. [NYT, AdAge]
• ABC is planning a big programming push for the fall with seven new series set to debut, which is roughly double what NBC and CBS have planned. [USAT]
• CNBC's ratings are down big, in case you haven't heard. [Guardian]
• G.I. Joe was No. 1 at the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $56 million. Julie and Julia came in second place with $20.1 million. [Variety]

• Did MSNBC give the wacko "birther" movement a boost by devoting so much air time to it over the past couple of weeks? Some critics think so. [Politico]
• TV talking-head deals appear to be a thing of the past. [B&C]
• Ben Stein is cranky that the New York Times let him go. [Reuters]
• Bill Hoffman has parted ways with the Post's Page Six. [Gawker]
• Barnes & Noble is buying Barnes & Noble College Booksellers from the company's chairman, Len Riggio, in a deal worth $596 million. [NYT]
• The Times' star sports reporter, Michael Schmidt, is just 25 and was delivering wings until he started at the paper a couple of years ago. [NYO]