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Book publishers aren’t known for being coy. When they’ve got a book coming out that they want you to know about, they’ll carpet-bomb you with more information than you could ever care to ask about.

So it was ver-r-r-r-r-y curious when a Simon and Schuster representative contacted me via an alias e-mail and said – with the surreptitious nature of a corner drug dealer – “Free Press has an embargoed book coming out soon that we’d like to send to you. Do you have a mailing address where I can send that within the next few weeks?”

Hmmmmmmm. I tried to find out what the hubbub was about, but the book representative wasn’t taking the bait.

But in the days since, it’s all become clear. Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz has a book out today called “Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War.” The Post featured an exclusive excerpt yesterday.

(Yes, I realize this is the second post today about a book. What is this, Book TV?)

So I caught up with Kurtz – who is in the middle of a media tour, including “The Daily Show” – via e-mail and asked him a pair of questions about the book...

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