Brown is the former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. She is insanely smart. We've already let her tell us what to read and what to think. Her detractors will say that The Daily Beast treats its readers like idiots who can't get informed on our own (Check out the Beast Board). But I've already clicked through a dozen stories on her site. Would love to hear what other people think.
The Daily Beast
From a Tina Brown Q&A:
What is The Daily Beast?
It's a speedy, smart edit of the web from the merciless point of view of what interests the editors. The Daily Beast is the omnivorous friend who hears about the best stuff and forwards it to you with a twist. It allows you to lead the conversation, rather than simply follow it.
Does the world really need another news aggregator?
The Daily Beast doesn't aggregate. It sifts, sorts, and curates. We're as much about what's not there as what is. And we freshen the stream with a good helping of our own original content from a wonderfully diverse group of contributors … satirist Christopher Buckley, historian Sean Wilentz, former McCain adviser Mark McKinnon, Project Runway’s Laura Bennett, the former editor of Al-Hayat Salameh Nematt, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, Nick Ciarelli who founded Think Secret, and many others.
Do you actually read anything online? If so, what?
A lot. I'm always checking in with HuffPo, Drudge, RealClearPolitics, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Andrew Sullivan, Hendrik Hertzberg, The Smoking Gun, TMZ, Hungry Girl, The Guardian, Paid Content, Arts and Letters Daily, Matt Yglesias, First Post, BBC, Romenesko, Head Butler
I'm hungry for more crazy Sarah Palin. The DB offers the scariest of the day:
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