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The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media. (Tina Brown)
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe. View quote
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Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? View quote
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In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism. View quote
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Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in. View quote
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The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? View quote
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Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals. View quote
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I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. View quote
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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. View quote
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TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. View quote
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I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment. (Tina Brown)
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. View quote
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Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. View quote
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I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean. View quote
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Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. View quote
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In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. View quote
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Tina Brown

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Photo: Financial Times, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Editor
Born: November 21, 1953
Quotes count: 18