Tina Brown Doesn't Know How To Use Wikipedia

From the Observer's exclusive on how the Newsweek-Daily Beast marriage was hatched, fun factoids about Tina Brown! "For about 21 hours of every day, someone is on call to answer her late-night/early-morning email blasts on random topics (1:21 a.m., Jan. 22, to 30 or so people: "Can u tell me where exactly Bhutan is?"). In April 2009, 11 people were enlisted to help prepare Ms. Brown for a quartet of TV appearances. It is not a coincidence that her assistant, Lena Jensen, was a contestant on TV's The Amazing Race: To meet Tina Brown's every beck and call, it apparently helps to have experience sprinting across the globe, performing impossible tasks."

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By Jen Chung in News on November 17, 2010 11:05 AM

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ANGRYGOD11

Since when is Wikipedia the most reliable source?

Brainwash

Who?

chuzzlewit

eh, she worked over at "the new yorker" for a few years. couple of other mags too, i think.

Nyctini11

ditto

Anonymous Lost Cause

Gah, how can someone not feel ridiculous demanding that someone answer such a stupid, readily answerable question that way? And how can someone answer such stupid, readily answerable questions for a moneyed dingbat while maintaining even a shred of dignity? Whatever, whichever one of them googled some Evelyn Waugh and gave her the name for the Daily Beast ought to have been fired long ago, because it's clear none of them get humor or self-awareness either.