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Tina Brown takes print medias tired, poor, huddle masses. So lovely. So selfless.
On the day the perennially troubled Radar magazine folded, its editor Maer Roshan got an email from an old friend, Tina Brown, with whom he’d worked at her own sunken ship, Talk.
“Maer my darling, I’m grieving so terribly,” she wrote in her Masterpiece Theatre trill. “I’m running into a meeting, but do nothing either yourself or with your staff until you’ve spoken to us. I will call you as soon as I can.”
Maybe Barry Diller’s mammoth IAC Corporation, with whom Ms. Brown launched her aggregator Web site, the Daily Beast, was prepping a bailout plan for the magazine!
Or was she looking for spiked pieces she could use to add original content to her own online magazine?
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December 10th, 2008 at 9:35 am
The key to all this is lies in the quote from the story:
““They’re less interested in the scoop and more interested in the fun, light read.” Getting paid for blogging is good, but who wants to write only stuff like that. And it certainly isn’t what the world needs now.
Mary