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Newsweek and The Daily Beast join forces
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| 11/12/10
| Joe Pompeo
Posted on 11/12/2010 8:39:56 AM PST by Enchante
Tina Brown is expected to address her staff at The Daily Beast this morning about its merger with Newsweek, which was confirmed late Thursday....
...The merger follows a protracted search by Harman for a new editor-in-chief of Newsweek, which he officially purchased in early October for $1, while agreeing to take on the magazine's mountain of debt....
...Under the terms of the deal, Newsweek and The Daily Beast will become a 50-50 joint venture called The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, owned equally by Harman and IAC. The nuances of how the editorial operation will function are still unclear, but Brown will have the title of editor-in-chief for both publications.
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KEYWORDS: deckchairs; democrats; dnc; fraud; liberals; media; mediascum; mentalcollapse; mentaldisorder; msm; news; newsweak; newsweek; thedailybeast; tinabrown; titanic
When I saw the headline I thought this would be a parody article, but apparently Tina Brown is now Editor-in-Chief for Newsweak as well as The Daily Beast.
Good way to ensure the tabloidization of Newsweak, but since it's already been running on leftist fumes I'm sure the quality has nowhere to go but up.
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:40:01 AM PST
by
Enchante
To: Enchante
Should they change the name?
How about “The Daily Week” or “News Beast”?
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:40:58 AM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
To: Enchante
It’s still a joke publication, but now Newsweak will be in a position to rival the NY Times for cultural significance!
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:41:19 AM PST
by
Enchante
(What if the Olberdork returned to the air - and no one notices.... or cares?)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:44:02 AM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Enchante
Can I assume that the merger has doubled Newsweek’s net value? You can now buy the entire company for two bucks, not one?
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:44:36 AM PST
by
Stosh
To: rightwingintelligentsia
How about “The Daily Week” or “News Beast”? BeastWeek.
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:45:55 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: ScottinVA
re: “BeastWeek”
then all they’ll need is an image of a snarling Nancy Pelosi on the masthead and they’ll at least DOUBLE their circulation
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:50:29 AM PST
by
Enchante
(What if the Olberdork returned to the air - and no one notices.... or cares?)
To: Enchante
I believe there’s a misspelling in the headline.
Instead of “forces” it should read “farces”.
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:51:45 AM PST
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Enchante
The Beast With Two Backs.
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:52:31 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Enchante
The nuances of how the editorial operation will function are still unclear Hey, conservatives still have a chance! If we each buy a copy...because if you don't buy a copy that's a vote for the liberals... Oh, never mind.
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:55:47 AM PST
by
donna
(Conservatives believe in God, Family, Country. Not money, money, money.)
To: Enchante
Shouldn’t that be “join farces” ?
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:59:11 AM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Zerobama not a Muslim? Obviously then, their most favorite useful idiot..)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Minds think alike. I was thinking The Daily News Beast.
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posted on
11/12/2010 8:59:49 AM PST
by
LoneStarGI
(Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
To: Carl LaFong
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:00:23 AM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Zerobama not a Muslim? Obviously then, their most favorite useful idiot..)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:00:35 AM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Stosh
$2.05
Inflation, dontchaknow
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:01:17 AM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
To: Stosh
I would like reading Daily Beast if he was not so glaringly Left Wing.
Yesterday, some girl writer was claiming that Michelle’s fashion in this Asia trip was better than Jackie Kennedy’s Asian trip.
Today they are pondering how stupid Sarah Palin is, and how shallow and idiotic Bush’s biography is.
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:03:53 AM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Enchante
Do two cockroaches constitute a nest?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:05:01 AM PST
by
The Comedian
(Time and tide wait for no man. But who needs a bad magazine and cheap soap?)
To: Enchante
great - they can grease their mutual asses up and join together on the slippery slide to the bottom of the pits of journalism.
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:10:33 AM PST
by
bigbob
To: Enchante
Wasn't "Newsweek Daily Beast Company" a character in the Book of Revelations?
If not, certainly a "daily weekly" is a sign of the Apocalypse.
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posted on
11/12/2010 9:25:39 AM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Worst. Post-Racial. And Post-Partisan. Agent Of Hope And Change. EVER.)
To: Enchante
I wonder if the offices will be moved to an address with 666 in it?
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posted on
11/12/2010 10:24:41 AM PST
by
PATRIOT1876
(Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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