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Miley Spread Jams VF's Inbox

Posted Jul 15, 08 1:00 PM CDT in Glossies,  Gossip,  Business 

(Newser) – Readers really responded to Vanity Fair’s now-infamous Miley Cyrus photo spread—but not in a bad way. The 915 letters were by far a record, but editor Graydon Carter tells Women's Wear Daily he's seen much worse on the outrage scale: “They were much kinder than the letters we got when Christopher Hitchens took on Mother Teresa. I got angry letters from staff members on that one."

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Singer Miley Cyrus arrives for the 80th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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