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Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge (Smug foreigner Tina Brown to be named Editor)
NY Observer ^
| 11/11/10
| Nick Summers
Posted on 11/11/2010 7:25:52 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: newsweak; newsweek; thedailybeast; tinabrown
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:26:02 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
$1/each or $1.50 for both?
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:27:25 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:30:04 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Pelosi: Like a rapist, PROUD of their handiwork.)
To: jimbo123
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...
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:30:51 PM PST
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Plus a free Blow Job from Tina Brown!
To: jimbo123
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:37:19 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: jimbo123
So, if you tie two sinking ships together, do they sink a little bit slower?
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:37:42 PM PST
by
festusbanjo
(The Tea Party is what the Republicans used to be, the Democrats are what the Soviets used to be.)
To: jimbo123
She did such a bang up job with the New Yorker that the Snoozeweak people better polish their resumes.
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:39:23 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: jimbo123
This thing is sure to sink quicker than the Titanic!
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:39:36 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:41:50 PM PST
by
Cicero
To: Anti-Bubba182
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:43:21 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: jimbo123
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.
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:45:28 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Anti-Bubba182
Trust me...it isn’t worth it.
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:50:09 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
("Let them eat lobster cake." Michele Antoinette, vacation #6.)
To: jimbo123
I’ve heard Tina is a real mean woman to work for.
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:50:23 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: Anti-Bubba182
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:53:05 PM PST
by
perfect_rovian_storm
(The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
To: jimbo123
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.’
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posted on
11/11/2010 7:54:12 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
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.
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posted on
11/11/2010 8:03:18 PM PST
by
Old North State
(Don't blame me, I voted for Pedro)
To: AnAmericanMother
You don’t think combining liberal stodgy with liberal snarky will form a winning combination?
To: Lazamataz
“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 :/
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posted on
11/11/2010 8:12:20 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
To: ari-freedom
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.
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posted on
11/11/2010 8:19:49 PM PST
by
Oldexpat
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