Spotted: World's fanciest former magazine editor Tina Brown in Tulsa, Oklahoma, spreading the gospel of microfocused Princess Diana gossip-rehashing to interested citizens of the Sooner State. The local paper relives the magical encounter:

"Tina Brown, considered the most high profile magazine writer in the world...

LOLOLOLOLOL! [Haughty big city put-down of the Tulsa community's lack of understanding of Tina Brown's place in the media world].

Brown answered questions about herself and her books and gave advice to the students on how to get started in journalism. She also pointed out that everyone has a story and that everywhere she goes she gets involved in that story.

“There is no wasted encounter when you’re a journalist,” she says.

We're waiting anxiously for that Tina Brown story on the culture of Tulsa. Idea for lead: the official state meal of Oklahoma is "fried okra, squash, cornbread, barbecue pork, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken fried steak, pecan pie, and black-eyed peas." [GTR News]

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