But he said he was thinking out loud and not making "rash accusations".

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Additional reporting for this article provided by writer and corporate training specialist Tom Lowery, Founding editor of Vox Universe and blogger at Thinking Out Loud.

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Now here comes Tina Brown thinking out loud that Newsweek is still one of the five or six most influential news brands in the world.

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More often than not, they have a prepared line to take, and fear thinking out loud for fear of how an original thought might affect those dreaded stakeholders, not least shareholders.

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And if eight percent say it out loud, there's probably another eight percent who are thinking it, but won't say it.

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