Old media maven Tina Brown is back this fall with a new website called The Daily Beast. The author of The Diana Chronicles and former New Yorker editor imagines her site as a cross between The Huffington Post, the content aggregating site Digg, and a glossy high-end magazine from the 1990's.

Today, new media guru Jeff Jarvis took a critical look at Brown's new project, but his essay included a couple evocative quotes from the famous editor. Here's something to ponder over the weekend: Brown suggested that writers are being swindled by new media.

"I think this period where anybody thought that anybody could write a posting for a venerable brand is a terrible mistake ... There hasn't been enough pushback from the creative world ... The great con of the 20th and 21st century is the way that talent has been exploited by this technology boom."