Tina Brown
Tina Brown
Tina Brown CBE, is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. Born a British citizen, she took United States citizenship in 2005 after emigrating in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair. Having been editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at only 25 years of age, she rose to prominence in the American media industry as the editor of Vanity Fair from 1984 to 1992 and of The New Yorker from...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.
'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.
There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.
'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.
Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.
It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet.
The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.
Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.
Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.