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The Professional Left Redux: "Prophecy is a Tough Buck" edition.

Almost two years, we at The Professional Left predicted that Tina Brown's next act of media-vampirism would be a magazine called "Cover", which would consist of nothing but a one-page cover (engineered to stir up fake controversy) and ads.

Two years later, judge for yourself how close we came:

Tina Brown, who edited New Yorker and Newsweek, doesn’t read magazines anymore 

Bhavya Dore, Hindustan Times  Bambolim, Goa, November 08, 2013

First Published: 21:29 IST(8/11/2013)

“The digital explosion has been so explosive,” said Brown, responding to a question on the state of journalism, during her session on Friday, “there isn’t a single place where the digital thing is a profit thing. The disruption hasn’t brought a business model.”

The British journalist who helmed among the best-known American magazines, bringing equal parts unique style and controversy to her jobs, no longer reads magazines herself.

“The habit has gone,” she said, later speaking to reporters.

And the written word is possibly, slowly going too, she told the audience during her session.

“I think you can have more satisfaction from live conversations,” she said, adding we were “going back to oral culture where the written word will be less relevant.”

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I suppose if one has built a career on the theory that the magnificent language of Shelley and Keats and Joyce and Poe and Shakespeare and Dickenson and Faulkner and Carver was bequeathed to you merely as means for scamming people into giving you money, eventually one gets tired of it glaring back at you with such scorn and reproval.