Tina BROWN runs website like print: Perks, power, paper.

[UTUSN]

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From the Belly of the Daily Beast: The Onerous Apparatus of Tina Brown's Website

.... And Brown had $18 million of Daddy Diller's money to play with. Print media might be in the last phase of an epic implosion, but Brown can still fleece a publisher like a champ.

Of course, Brown then had to actually run the damn thing. Sure, she's got some trusted lieutenants like longtime consigliera Gabé Doppelt and executive editor Edward Felsenthal, formerly of the Wall Street Journal. In fact, we're told the Beast hums along quite nicely in Brown's absence, whether she's away working on her Hillary Clinton book, going to parties or trying to get her kid into Harvard.

But then there are Brown's regular swoop-ins to disrupt all that, we've been told. ... ....

The dreaded Sunday Close: ... ....

Since Brown conceives of the Beast as something like a weekly magazine, Sunday nights are typically a marathon frenzy of to close stories which can go on well past midnight. We're not exactly clear on why this has to happen — we've heard that she considers, for reasons we can't fathom, Monday to be the most important day on the web — but apparently Sunday night is the last chance for Brown to tweak, recast or completely overhaul stories for all-important Monday. ....


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[BurtWorm]

1. It's mostly a useless website.

Once in a while they have a story no one else has that is worth reading. But I can't remember the last time that was. And they're usually about someone ir or something already in the news.

[BurtWorm]

2. Here's an example of the banality of the Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-10/the-rights-top-25-journalists/?cid=hp:mainpromo6

First, who gives a shit about "the most consequential" right-wing "journalists?" This is an example of the Beast's wishy washy desire to be all things to all people. They have no standards but rank popularity. Huffington Post has similarly low news standards and a willingness to be a whore for high click-throughs, but at least you know where they stand, and it's usually in a good place.

[UTUSN]

3. No wonder Joe SCAB and Mika Mouse host her so often. n/t