Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Morning Read - Gotta Love Tina Brown

Tina Brown, a respected figure in media (she is on the border of "journalist" and "personality" nowadays) started The Daily Beast a while back (six years ago?).  And while the Beast has gone through many changes, one thing hasn't changed and that is "The Daily Cheat Sheet".
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It is a morning grab bag of 10 stories that Tina found interesting.  And while I would love to make fun of her priorities, except I totally enjoy the Cheat Sheet.  It is just enough breaking news, NYC gossip, international top story and political mischief to be fascinating. Look at today's lineup.
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First, video of the NYC police doing a good job. After the bad press they are getting she wants to give them props where deserved.  Plus, non-controversial video of a cop take-down, score!
The two "news"ish stories with nice photo ops.
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look Then an Uplifting(?) story of the NYC Ranger who helped his team win the hockey game, even after losing part of his ear in period 1.
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Then... Politics. International News.
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look Crazy rich foreigner gets what's coming to her.
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International news.
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look Sony story as excuse for stupid celebrity aliases.
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Like I said, just enough news to make the case it is a news magazine, not People.  And just enough guilty pleasure to make us read the news.
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As for that Crazy Rich Foreigner story.  It is too juicy not to share.
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