Though, along with the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, the New York Times refuses to report on John Edwards' love child scandal covered masterfully by the National Enquirer, they have no problem picking up on another line of gossip put forth by a different media outlet. It's the human interest story about New Jersey's $126 million lottery, and how the winning ticket may have been purchased by a Brazilian immigrant, but nobody knows for sure. Not even the Times. But hey, why should not knowing the facts and basing the article on somebody else's loose reporting stop an article from getting printed?

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RUMOR OF THE DAY Kate Hudson is carrying Justin Timberlake's Sexy Baby. “What about Jessica Biel?” “Was Us Weekly hiding this from me?” you might ask. Well it’s all gossip, but allegedly they’ve been shagging for a year. It's been on the L because Kate Hudson doesn’t want to be responsible for any more awkward situations and or become the next Cameron Diaz. This can end in one of two ways: Kate Hudson will lose weight or she will have the most awkward People magazine spread ever. [Hollyscoop]

LINK IT UP "Hey wouldn't it be cool if Google bought the New York Times? No, there's no reason to believe that Google is actually going to buy the New York Times or that the Sulzbergers would sell. I'm just saying it would be really interesting if that happened. I mean, everyone is crazy about the New York Times and Google, people use that website all the time. So why not link to my story about that subject, even though it has no real relevance?" [RealClearMarkets]

RUMORS ON THE INTERNET Beyonce and Jay-Z got married in Paris? What? Not true according to reps for both parties. The two have been battling marriage, fidelity and co-habitation rumors from the beginning, so until Beyonce and Jay-Z do a wedding spread for Vanity Fair, we're not even going to speculate. [Stereohyped]

If the 2008 Campaign were a Shakespearean play, John Edwards would be one of the side characters you don’t care about, but know you will be tested on later because he acts as a foil or something.

Anyway, as is our duty, the woman The National Enquirer claims John Edwards was inside is pregnant and has relocated to Chapel Hill. The baby is John’s, according to sources at The National Enquirer.

In case you forgot, getting some chick knocked up while you’re cheating on your cancer-ridden wife is considered bad form.

Andrew Young, an ex-key official in Edwards’s campaign with a young family of his own, says he’s Rielle Hunter’s baby-daddy. The Edwards campaign seems like one big party, a losing party, but still a party.

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Look, we’re not stupid. We get that Jason Bateman and Michael Cera are re-co-starring in the new indy flick, Juno. So if Bateman wants to invoke the magic, nay, illusion, they had together on Arrested Development in interviews to encourage us to see Juno, so be it.

But we can still hope that Bateman isn't just teasing us with the possibility of an Arrested Development movie. If not for us, than for TBA disease, which still has no known cure.

Here’s some hearsay: New York Daily News editor Martin Dunn wants to be Rupert Murdoch's bitch.

Here are some facts: Dunn still lives in England, he wrote a toady think piece on working for Murdoch for The Guardian and there’s an opening at Murdoch’s Times of London.

When asked about his ambitions to leave Mort Zuckerman for Rupert Murdoch, Dunn told Jeff Bercovici, "Quite frankly, Rupert ain't going to be my employer."

Okay, but if Dunn did want to leave, there would be no better way to impress him than with a grammatically incorrect but socially acceptable contraction.

So apparently Rupert Murdoch is in talks to take over LinkedIn. When Murdoch put his Midas media touch on MySpace, we were irked, but he can have LinkedIn.

Every few weeks, a random person asks us to “connect” on LinkedIn. And what does this connection do for us? Do we get to see their relationship status? Pictures of them binge drinking? Learn about their favorite books? No. At best we discover what this person majored in in college.

So enjoy LinkedIn, Rupert, because a social networking site without incriminating photos is no friend of ours.

"Teen admits sex with teacher 1 or 2 times." Awesome? Maybe not. We hear those "1 or 2 times" just happened to coincide with the student's worst grades of the entire semester. And we heard it from our cousin's best friend, who swears someone in her younger brother's gym class knows someone who recognizes the kid from study hall. So there. [CNN]

Word that Marcia and Jan were “closer than sisters” during The Brandy Brunch years was just rumor. Clearly, they were trying to hit it with Greg. Ok, that last part was made up too. [TVgasm]

Over at Mixed Media, there’s some talk about Time Warner spinning off Time Inc.

The evidence: Time Inc. is streamlining.

They pulled the plug on Business 2.0 a few weeks ago. And there was "restructuring" at Sports Illustrated and Time earlier this year.

Sources say if Time Inc. is spun off, it would be as an IPO, not a leveraged buy out.

But this is all conjecture. After all, the last piece of evidence of the spin-off is that their magazines are run by “15 old white guys," which has been a winning formula for almost every magazine published ever.