“You know what also makes me happy? That 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.”

Tina Brown, on the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger. (via NPR)

(via jessbennett)

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    Can’t tell you how much I love that she brought that up on NPR Friday morning. !! Kick it, Tina. Rock that show OUT.
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    Ain’t that always the way, though?
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