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" I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print. "
Tina Brown
Think
Write
Web
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" Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre. "
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" With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information. "
Tina Brown
People
Army
Job
" It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say. "
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Good
You
Say
" In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. "
Tina Brown
TV
Feel
Train
" To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. "
Tina Brown
Respect
Keep
Win
" Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way. "
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Live
Doing
Media
" The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. "
Tina Brown
Priceless
Useless
Palace
" It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs. "
Tina Brown
Line
Now
American
" Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets. "
Tina Brown
People
Royal
Trouble
" The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone. "
Tina Brown
More
Girl
Fear
" I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news. "
Tina Brown
News
Magazine
Energetic
" When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake. "
Tina Brown
Made
Means
Mistake
" American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. "
Tina Brown
Up
American
Dying
" I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit. "
Tina Brown
America
Think
Strong
" The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage. "
Tina Brown
Poet
Permission
Courage
" Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to. "
Tina Brown
Top
Bank
Talk
" Economics has become as riveting as politics. "
Tina Brown
Economics
Politics
Become
" I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. "
Tina Brown
Empowerment
Economic
Years
" I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean. "
Tina Brown
Being Mean
Being
Mean
" An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids. "
Tina Brown
Table
Double
Time
" I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. "
Tina Brown
Me
Place
Myself
" Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. "
Tina Brown
Big
Time
Trying
" One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them. "
Tina Brown
Alpha
Them
World
" Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. "
Tina Brown
You
Wall
Ethos
" What has happened to America's survival instincts? "
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Happened
Survival
Instincts
" Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous. "
Tina Brown
Always
Air
Great
" There is nothing radical about Obama except the fact of who he is. "
Tina Brown
Radical
About
He
" Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it. "
Tina Brown
Ship
River
Daily
" When George W. Bush hit the campaign trail in 2000, the precious possession he brought with him from home was his personal feather pillow. The theme of the Bush years was obliviousness. He was famously unavailable for debate and dialogue. He was deaf to countervailing voices. He hit the sack early and always got a good night's sleep. "
Tina Brown
Good
Early
Debate
" Magazine articles are the new books. "
Tina Brown
Magazine
New
Articles