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    MarkEbnerHamilton Nolan
    9/11/13 4:49pm

    I'm sorry to see Tina go because she was one of few editrix who actually paid a decent internet rate for freelancers.

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      DC8MarkEbner
      9/12/13 3:40pm

      Except that she didn't pay it; the rich guys she conned into putting her in charge paid it. She just wrote the checks. That party is over.

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      MarkEbnerDC8
      9/12/13 5:39pm

      Find me a freelancer who cares where the money comes from.

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    ManchuCandidateHamilton Nolan
    9/11/13 2:12pm
    Goodbye Tina Brown
    Though I never knew you at all
    You had the grace to hold yourself
    Making those around you crawl
    They crawled out of the woodwork
    And they whispered into your brain
    They sent you on the internet
    And they tried to make you change your ways

    And it seems to me you lived your life
    Like a candle in the wind
    Never knowing who to cling to
    When reality set in
    And I would have liked to have ignored you
    But I was just a dunce
    Your employers flamed out long before
    Your expense account ever did

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      raincoasterHamilton Nolan
      9/11/13 5:34pm

      The Newsweek fiasco was a joke, but this really is a sad day. Brown was really fucking talented but sometime towards the end of the 80's she began drinking the Koolaid and stopped with the snark. Instead of profiles that appeared fawning if you were dumb but were really cutting if you read closely, she started assigning and running straight up fawning profiles. She had great gifts. She sold them to Harvey Weinstein for a handful of magic beans.

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        Brown NoteHamilton Nolan
        9/11/13 1:53pm

        They should have sacked her after that dreadful Diana cover in Newsweek. Hastened the print edition's demise.

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          JohnMcClanesSmirkHamilton Nolan
          9/11/13 1:53pm

          I guess this week's "Osama at 55: If He Were Terrorizing Us Now" cover was the last straw.

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            Hart88Hamilton Nolan
            9/11/13 2:05pm

            Oh well. Next stop: Huffington Post.

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              raincoasterHart88
              9/12/13 6:59pm

              Not after the stuff she's run about Arianna.

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            kingdom2000Hamilton Nolan
            9/11/13 5:10pm

            Brown is the worse example of new executive. Goes for the lowest common denominator in a desperate (and obvious) bid for eyeballs. Subscribed to Newsweek for about 10 years, had to drop it when she took over as the quality, stories choices, etc. were just bad. So where covers but really the content just took a significant decline under her leadership.

            As for Daily Beast the website, tried to read it but its content was crap. Cause found Meghan McCain to be hot (no idea why but she does it for me), tried to read her articles but then realized she writes lots of words that combined add nothing to any discussion (aka perfect political writing). That lots of words while saying nothing seems to be the standard under Brown.

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              Bell the CatHamilton Nolan
              9/11/13 6:22pm

              Are there any magazines left for Tina to helm? I mean besides Reader's Digest, (which is a waaaaay too intellectual publication for her).

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                raincoasterBell the Cat
                9/12/13 6:58pm

                Prevention?

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              heywhatHamilton Nolan
              9/11/13 2:05pm

              I never understood the concept of the Daily Beast. It was kind of leftist like the Huffington Post but not really. Part contrarian like Slate but not really. It has never found it's identity and remains directionless.

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                ThisMachineKillsNeoliberalsheywhat
                9/11/13 2:31pm

                It was/is very good at letting me know which writers' opinions I should never bother respecting though.

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                shootingfanheywhat
                9/11/13 3:19pm

                Part of the problem is that there are so many more established left wing websites. Both of the two you mentioned are decidedly left of center. Why look at the Daily Beast when you have these two, Gawker, and Mediaite? To say nothing of PBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, WaPo, NYT, ...

                If you want to make money in the Internet, you either go into porn, or plus size clothing sales. If you want to lose a fortune in the Internet, start with a bigger fortune and open a left wing news and opinion outlet.

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              corey3rdHamilton Nolan
              9/11/13 2:21pm

              Tina Brown's Penny Saver is in the works.

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