Somebody dial 911.
Quickly.
There’s been a gas leak at the Newsbeast offices.
There must have been.
It is the only explanation for this:

And this: the article I still refuse to believe is inside, penned by a clearly propane-peaking Tina Brown.
There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her bare arms buff from the gym. Remarriage? At least two, I suspect, on both sides of the Atlantic. Always so professional herself, she would have soon grown exasperated with Dodi Al-Fayed’s hopeless unreliability. After the breakup I see her moving to her favorite city, New York, spending a few cocooned years safely married to a super-rich hedge-fund guy who could provide her with what she called “all the toys”: the plane, the private island, the security detail. Gliding sleekly into her 40s, her romantic taste would have moved to men of power over boys of play. She’d have tired of the hedge-fund guy and drifted into undercover trysts with someone more exciting—a high-mindedly horny late-night talk-show host, or a globe-trotting French finance wizard destined for the Élysée Palace. I suspect she would have retained a weakness for men in uniform, and a yen for dashing Muslim men. (A two-year fling with a Pakistani general, rumored to have links to the ISI, would have been a particular headache to the Foreign Office and the State Department.) Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative would have become her new post-palace power circles. She would perhaps have caused a press sensation with an unplanned pledge from the CGI stage to raise $50 million to help educate women in South Sudan.
And certainly for this:

And thus the great promise of Tina Brown's editorship of Newsweek has been realized.
I wonder how Pippa feels about the very tasteful photoshopping that removed her from this image...
#1 Posted by Anthony, CJR on Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 11:09 AM
I just went over to the Newsweek site to see how the readers were reacting over there. I haven't read through all the comments yet, but every one I've read so far is very very negative. One commenter called it "exploitative celebrity science fiction."
#2 Posted by Lauren Kirchner, CJR on Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 01:26 PM
How do you think New Yorker readers felt during her tenure? As she might say, "OMG!
#3 Posted by Bill Michtom, CJR on Sat 16 Jul 2011 at 03:45 PM