Tina Brown
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Tina Brown is a prominent journalist and author known for her influential work in media and publishing. This interview reveals her strategic thinking as she navigates complex narratives and critiques the media's role in shaping political discourse.
“Yeah, I mean, the British newspapers actually do that high-low thing at their best very well. I mean, they also do cheesy, horrible things. But at their best, they do sort of mingle the sort of the gravitas with the irreverence. And they put it all together with a very sort of...”
“Editor of the Tatler, not? No, I'd left the Tadler in the meantime. I had got restless. I tend to get restless and jump out of the room. You are a restless. I'm a restless. I jumped out of Tatler to go back to writing and kind of regretted it immediately. Because it's a power base. Because a power base.”
“I Yeah, I mean, I kept sitting in these meetings and they say, Well, is it a fashion magazine? Is it a political magazine? Is it a culture magazine or is it a this magazine? And I thought it's all of those things.”
“Yeah, well he could. He could leave me hanging. He could also suddenly go off and do something which really irritated me, which is having, you know, when I created Vanity Fair, he would just go off and launch Italian Vanity Fair without speaking to me, you know, and I would suddenly find some Italian in my office saying, you know, hello,…”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 190. How the Media Still Misunderstands Trump (Tina Brown)
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