The name of the Beast

The secret name of former Tatler, Vanity Fair and Talk editor Tina Brown's new internet project, financed by former Fox and Vivendi Universal boss Barry Diller, has been revealed and what an excellently retro name it is too. Monkey thanks veteran New York Post columnist Liz Smith for the following snippet: "Tina Brown and I had an excellent chat before Hillary showed. The senator's biographer has been busy showing her mock-up of a new journalism website to entrepreneur Barry Diller. It will be called The Daily Beast, in homage to Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Scoop. And Barry, I suppose, will play the role of the Beast's Lord Copper."