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Home Front: Culture Wars
Daily Beast devours Newsweak
2010-11-12
... and Tina Brown rides again.
Posted by:ryuge

#9  What did she offer, $2?

Boy that was FAST!
Posted by: anonymous2u   2010-11-12 17:59  

#8  The question is when the survivors will start drawing lots to see who gets eaten first

hint - stay away from Meghan. And hide the sporks
Posted by: Frank G   2010-11-12 10:56  

#7  They lashed the sinking ships.

The ships have already sunk, imnsho. Nearly every 'name' that's on the Daily Beast masthead is a refugee from a failed or failing magazine or newspaper. We already know what the former Post-owned Newsweek is.

The question is when the survivors will start drawing lots to see who gets eaten first.
Posted by: Pappy   2010-11-12 10:50  

#6  Tina Brown, who will again run ruin a high-profile glossy. There.

Posted by: armyguy   2010-11-12 10:36  

#5  but...but...they have the astute political genius Meghan McCain on board!
Posted by: Frank G   2010-11-12 10:16  

#4  After the bang-up job she did with the New Yorker, she needs to find bigger and bigger magazines to destroy.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2010-11-12 08:29  

#3  This is like putting the plague victims in the same room and saying they will get better because they are all together.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-11-12 08:09  

#2  They didn't lash the lifeboats. They lashed the sinking ships.
Posted by: Martini   2010-11-12 02:40  

#1  Paraphrasing something Pappy once said about the merger:

They found a way to lash the lifeboats together.
Posted by: badanov   2010-11-12 00:16  

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