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Daily Beast/Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown today announced the launch of the new Women in the World Foundation, which holds itself out as “a powerful, new initiative dedicated to highlighting and driving solutions for advancing women and girls” that “will serve as a resource to all who seek to learn about and engage on the issues facing women and girls.” Sounds like a worthwhile venture until you remember that Tina Brown has a very narrow vision of what it means to be an empowered woman, one that discounts political conservatives like Michele Bachmann . For example, as my colleague Geoff Dickens noted in August , “After a run of victories by female candidates in the 2010 GOP primaries, Brown on the June 10 edition of ABC's Good Morning America, called the wins: 'a blow to feminism.'” [see video embedded below] You can Tina Brown's Profile in Bias over at the Media Research Center website .