Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge (Smug foreigner Tina Brown to be named Editor)

NY Observer ^ | 11/11/10 | Nick Summers

[jimbo123]

Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce tomorrow morning that the two publications will merge, a source close to the deal tells The Observer.

It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies. The editorial staffs will combine under the editorship of Tina Brown, who will again run a high-profile glossy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

$1/each or $1.50 for both?

[Lazamataz]

Wow. Newsweek, once I remember, quite some decades ago, was a reasonably respected magazine.

Now it is part of "The Daily Beast".

How things change.

[okie01]

The editorial staffs will combine under the editorship of Tina Brown, who will again run a high-profile glossy...

...straight into the ground.

But all her friends will continue to remark on her brilliance...

[Anti-Bubba182]

Plus a free Blow Job from Tina Brown!

[smokingfrog]

The Daily News Beast

[festusbanjo]

So, if you tie two sinking ships together, do they sink a little bit slower?

[Lazlo in PA]

She did such a bang up job with the New Yorker that the Snoozeweak people better polish their resumes.

[mylife]

This thing is sure to sink quicker than the Titanic!

[Cicero]

I presume that The Daily Beast took its name from Evelyn Waugh’s comic novel, “Scoop.” I suppose they consider it kind of an in joke. But I don’t think Waugh would be amused by this appropriation. It’s really not very funny.

[SIDENET]

LOL!

[BunnySlippers]

Very, very interesting.

This morning I read with interest an article on Daily Beat about how Michelle Obama in India wore more fashionable clothes than Jackie Kennedy.

[clintonh8r]

Trust me...it isn’t worth it.

[Tzimisce]

I’ve heard Tina is a real mean woman to work for.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

You’ve overpaid.

[AnAmericanMother]

This reminds me of when Southern Airways merged with North Central Airlines to form Republic (remember them?) An aviation lawyer of my acquaintance said that thinking you could put those two airlines together and get a quality product ‘was like thinking you could put two hookers in a sack, shake ‘em up, and come out with the Virgin Mary.’

[Old North State]

and come out with the Virgin Mary..
Having been through a couple of these desperation mergers I know what you mean. It is amazing what otherwise fairly smart guys will talk themselves into when they are cornered.

[mas cerveza por favor]

You don’t think combining liberal stodgy with liberal snarky will form a winning combination?

[ari-freedom]

“Wow. Newsweek, once I remember, quite some decades ago, was a reasonably respected magazine.
Now it is part of “The Daily Beast”.”

actually this will now make Newsweek a bit more reasonable :/

[Oldexpat]

It has been years since I picked up a Time or Newsweak magazine even in the Dr. office..for free. Time was considered conservative in my early years. So she can take her rags and use them where the sun doesn’t shine. Then she can head back to wherever she came from.