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    Tina Brown on Diana: "I Wanted to Make Her a Time Traveler"

    By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire – Wed, Jun 29, 2011
    Tina Brown on Diana:

    Tina Brown showed up on Morning Joe today discussing the zombie Princess Diana on the cover of Newsweek cover. Both she and the magazine have been taking fire from all sides for the digitally aged representation of Diana walking next to Kate Middleton for this week's cover story. Newsweek readers have passionately and relentlessly expressed their discontent on Facebook and in comments sections around the web.

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    Yahoo's Dylan Stableford called Tina's cover package "pure fan fiction." Probably trying to lighten things up, Newsweek senior writer Andrew Romano joked on Twitter, "Printing a photoillustration of Diana at 50 is one thing. But calling her a whale princess? I am outraged. Outraged!" He's talking about MSNBC's banner during the Morning Joe interview with Brown, pictured above.

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    Somehow Tina's staying positive about the whole thing. Brown said in a statement, "We wanted to bring the memory of Diana alive in a vivid image that transcends time and reflected my piece." The Newsweek editor-in-chief echoed this sentiment on Morning Joe:

    I found it really interesting to imagine what she woudl be doing now and the best way to kind of communicate that would be to put her in a situation where she's standing there with Kate Middleton. Because I wanted to make her a time traveler…

    "What's the response been?" asked host Joe Scarborough.

    Well, it went absolutely viral actually in the last two days because the cover has created a huge amount of debate. Some people think it's kind of spooky and ‘Should we have done it?' and others think it's very effective. I think it's a very intriguing package to show what she'd be like today. You know we aged her just slightly… to me it's just sad, a saddening thing.

    Of Brown's Morning Joe appearance, Gawker's Richard Lawson responded, "It is a saddening thing, truly. And if it's a saddening thing for Tina Brown, just imagine how big of a saddening thing it is for, like, Diana's kids. Clearly William and Harry havenever caught themselves wondering what it would be like for their mother to still be alive, so it's a good, noble thing that Tina Brown stepped in and imagined it for them." 

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    32 comments

    • pattycakes
      pattycakes  •  11 mths ago
      Disgusting. Tina, you should be ashamed. Just to sell magazines? It shows how bankrupt your vision really is. You should resign. You need a spiritual rebirth. Good luck.
    • Jerry
      Jerry  •  11 mths ago
      Newsweek must be all about Tina. And with such indepth help from her smartass editor Andrew Romano they should be worth less then the dollar they paid for this rag in a week
    • Lorie
      Lorie  •  11 mths ago
      Just listen to the readers and apologize, apologize, apologize. This is ridiculously creepy. Leave Diana alone already. She was hunted down like a dog when she was alive. Let her rest in peace, please.
    • Laurie
      Laurie  •  11 mths ago
      I am 58 and this picture looks ages older than I look. It is disrespectful to Diana as well as to her children. Newsweek has biten the dust!!!!
    • Steve
      Steve  •  11 mths ago
      Very poor taste. Let the poor woman rest. Tina Brown screws up again!
    • Savannah
      Savannah  •  11 mths ago
      " so it's a good, noble thing that Tina Brown stepped in and imagined it for them." No, it's not.. who gives her the right? Who is she? there godmother?! Besides, even if those kids imagine what its like to have there mother around, but not all these crap she writes!
      • peng
        peng 11 mths ago
        Um they were being sarcastic when they said that....apparently that sarcasm was lost on you.
    • Riana Tucker
      Riana Tucker  •  11 mths ago
      Hey Tina Brown! You fool! Time traveler my %%#% Diana is dead. There's no time traveling for her. It was not meant to be for her to be here. You were only thinking of your pockets, so you can pay off your big mansion. Get a life!
    • Ed
      Ed  •  11 mths ago
      I read the article and thought it quite good! Most of the people who found fault with the story and pictures are right wing scum who support the degenerates of the GOP! Tina should brush their filthy complaints off like you would brush a dead roach from a park bench!
    • CaptainK
      CaptainK  •  11 mths ago
      "All the news that fits we print; even if we create it." Hearst would be so proud.
      This seems more like lessons learned via the Enquirer or World News.
      Next week the issue will include pictures of the infamous Bat Boy and eyewitness accounts of JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and Hitler living on an island in the Pacific.
    • Dan S
      Dan S  •  11 mths ago
      I would issue your walking papers in a heartbeat...shame on you!
    • aaron g
      aaron g  •  11 mths ago
      how old was henry winkler when happy days ended
      • Riana Tucker
        Riana Tucker 11 mths ago
        Who cares about Henry Winkler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Chris
      Chris  •  11 mths ago
      Just saw this cover in the grocery store checkout aisle, and as shallow and sick as it is, I'm not exactly surprised. Newsweek has been a joke for years but it appears that über-twit Tina Brown is determined to strip it of any last morsel of credibility that it may be vainly clinging to. I wonder why no one bothers to read this "magazine" anymore. Baffling. Tina's severance package will, of course, be wildly incommensurate with her performance as editor. Can't wait to hear that she's been dumped on CNBC.
    • John M
      John M  •  11 mths ago
      Completely inappropriate. Please see Mrs, Bourne.
    • cheyenne
      cheyenne  •  11 mths ago
      Jesus Christ if your going to make her time travel, at least make her look non scary. Looks like she's gonna get me.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  11 mths ago
      so what?
    • Aaron
      Aaron  •  11 mths ago
      Disrespectful act of a despicable woman. Diana will forever be in the hearts of the millions who loved her and to them she will always be beautiful. Newsweek sucks.
    • JimS
      JimS  •  11 mths ago
      Wake up people! This was all a publicity stunt for a magazine that isn't doing well. Newsweek & Tina Brown knew this would happen by printing a horrible image of Diana. Let's see a bad age progression of Tina Brown...wait, she already looks old and scary!
    • Riana Tucker
      Riana Tucker  •  11 mths ago
      If I was the media, I'd have never mention Diana name, because they killed her. She'd still be here, if it was not for them.......... The media has no shame.
    • Lili
      Lili  •  11 mths ago
      In very poor taste and very, very creepy. Haven't her sons suffered enough without seeing their late mother as a "time traveller" ?? Come on, Tina ... maybe you should move over to the National Enquirer ...
    • Mike
      Mike  •  11 mths ago
      This woman is an idiot
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