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I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.
Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.
The number one way of becoming powerful in Washington is by becoming the 'Washington Post.'
'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?
No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.
One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.
'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.
The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.
I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.
By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'
When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
In the world of screens, we're all tired of screens. That's why I think that live events have become so popular.
I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.'
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.
There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.
The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.
You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.
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.
Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.
I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news.
Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.
Schwarzenegger is big, he's noisy, he's larger than life, and he's earned the credibility to be cast for the role of America's Green superhero.
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.
What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.
Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product.
Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.