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.
Tina Brown

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

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.
Tina Brown

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.
Tina Brown

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.
Tina Brown

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.
Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
Tina Brown

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.
Tina Brown

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.
Tina Brown

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?
Tina Brown

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
Tina Brown

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.
Tina Brown