Conservative Magazine The Weekly Standard To Fold After 23 Years

[edhopper]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/weekly-standard-magazine-trump-fold_us_5c13d2aae4b05d7e5d819f9c

The reality is, the Republican Party is wholly the Trump Party. No disapproval allowed.

[NCjack]

1. Should have died over 22 years ago. nt

[dlk]

2. Thoughts and Prayers...

[lillypaddle]

3. From an article posted in TPM

A different perspective:

The Weekly Standard was part of a tradition of principled political opinion magazines that have been above party and commercial interest. The tradition probably goes back to two publications of the left, The Nation and The New Republic, but it was also followed by William F. Buckley, Jr’s National Review and The Weekly Standard. These publications didn’t follow a party line or slavishly mimic a candidate or president. The New Republic started out as a vehicle for Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential ambitions, but within a year had broken with him. In its first year, The Weekly Standard came out for a Colin Powell presidency. And for the last two years, it has been a leading critic of Republican nominee and President Donald Trump.

Why is this important? Because the role of the political intellectual and journal is to look forward and beyond, not simply to replicate what is. The parties have their spokespeople and their publications. But some publications have to look out for what is best for the national interest rather than that of the Republican or Democratic Party or whatever president is in power. And they have to do so in a responsible and factually-based manner.

More at link. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/standard

[irisblue]

4. Max Boot & a WaPo opinion piece.

Source-https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/14/conservatism-needs-new-weekly-standard-untainted-by-trump/?utm_term=.741090d6f625.


T his qoute jumped out at me. "There’s nothing unusual about a rich owner losing interest in one of his playthings. What makes this case more tragic and infuriating is that Anschutz and McKibben refused entreaties from the Weekly Standard’s editor, Stephen Hayes, to sell the magazine. Rather than allow the magazine to live under new ownership, Anschutz and McKibben murdered it to harvest its subscriber list for the Examiner. So a talented staff of journalists is being thrown out of work just before Christmas in an act that is equal parts destructive, stupid and cruel."


Well Max, that seems to be the essence of conservative, republican social-political behavior. Free hand of the market in the decline of subscriptions and " them that has the gold makes the rules" behavior.

[OnDoutside]

6. Indeed. Womp womp.

[MineralMan]

5. AMFs!

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7. My then new father in law, very conservative, gave me a subscription when it started up. I read it

for a few issues. They had better writers than other right wing political journals for a while at least.

The one thing they did really well was the book reviews.

Over the years my father in law has become much more progressive, maybe more so than me. But he's retained the Weekly Standard and whenever I visit I look for it so I can cruise the book reviews.