Former Vanity Fair and Talk Magazine editor Tina Brown just closed a deal for her own talk show on CNBC--a "roundtable" she calls it. She praises Tim Russert and disses George Stephanopoulos.

Tina has her own take on liberal media--we wonder if she's read Eric's book, anyway, here's what she says:

Being a liberal on political TV right now would be a unique selling proposition. Almost all the other talk shows tilt unapologetically rightwards. Conservative-leaning cable talk shows get better ratings, but the propaganda from the other side is that it’s not because they have more viewers, it’s just that they stay tuned longer. CNN viewers watch for an average of about 14 minutes. The typical right-wing talk show fan hangs in there for more than 20 minutes. It seems that CNN viewers watch for news while conservative talk viewers watch for entertainment. They get their jollies nodding along with potato-faced white guys with an up-yours point of view.

She doesn't much care for most of the debate-style cable news shows, likening their hosts to Leopold and Loeb, but she loves Larry King.

The name of the show? She didn't say, only that it will have her name in the title. Anyway, we wish her well. She was a tremendously successful publisher, she knows everyone, how can she lose?