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Tina Brown Pleased With Glass Ceiling-Smashing
"I'm the first woman editor of Newsweek, which is very exciting. You know that in the 1970s, the women editors of Newsweek launched a lawsuit against the management because there were hardly any women doing anything of any consequence on the magazine. And women's liberation took over and they hired the great lawyer, Eleanor Norton, and they went to battle for their rights. I feel that it—you know, a merger has created what the lawsuit couldn't." What a difference forty years makes.
The American Express ad makes it look like Tina Brown and Jane Lynch are looking at/away from each other.
I am just saying.
Why are you saying?
It was a weird moment of symmetry between content and display ad.
It suggested a possible future made-for-tv movie.
It was there.
So in the TV movie, Jane Lynch will play Tina Brown (obviously) but who will play Jane Lynch?
A merger has created what the lawsuit couldn't.
Cash? Can I have another guess?
"Hey, you girls still want the magazine? Cuz no one else does."
You read my mind.
Jane Lynch is looking rather put together.
Tine Brown, the feminist answer to the age-old question: Who will continue to run Newsweek into the ground?
And I know it was a while ago, but didn't she famously play up to her much older, married boss, help break up his marriage, and then end up marrying him?
What about THAT merger?
Tina's first editorial meeting at Newsweek:
"We need stars on our covers, people. Glamour and sex sells! Bette Midler, Bruce Willis, Liza. Cher!" (An aide whispers in her ear.)
"All right, forget Cher. And I want 40,000 words on Michael Ovitz- What's Next For Him? on my desk by Monday."
I'm still trying to understand the business sense of closing a site that has more traffic than the DB. I like both, I just think of them differently. I don't see them even in competition.