Conservative Magazine The Weekly Standard To Fold After 23 Years

[brooklynite]

Source: Huffington Post

The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine that has been critical of the Trump administration, is set to close after 23 years.

Clarity Media Group, which owns Standard publisher MediaDC, announced Friday that the magazine’s final issue will publish on Monday, according to CNN.

“For more than twenty years The Weekly Standard has provided a valued and important perspective on political, literary and cultural issues of the day,” Ryan McKibben, chairman of MediaDC, said in a press release. “The magazine has been home to some of the industry’s most dedicated and talented staff and I thank them for their hard work and contributions, not just to the publication, but the field of journalism.”

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

[deurbano]

1. Finally! Seemed longer...

[Renew Deal]

2. PNAC

And the Iraq letter. Two things that DUers should never forget

[UpInArms]

3. Bill Kristol

Son of Irving Kristol ... father of the neocons ...

[brush]

7. Kristol, the man who was always wrong during the Bush years...

finally got it right by being against trump.

Did he sell it to MediaDC?

[barbtries]

5. thank you.

i needed that perspective.

[deurbano]

8. And Sarah Palin! Direct line from that reality TV grifter to the WH squatter.

[Crowman2009]

16. +1

[barbtries]

4. seems like a win for trump.

i've never been a conservative but this feels like not so good.

[FreepFryer]

9. yup (n/t)

[xor]

11. Trump cultists are celebrating this with more glee than even folks here.

If I thought that having a "moderating" voice on the right made a difference to the Trumpers, then I would feel a little bit bothered by this. But they only listen to Trump, and anyone who says anything different to Trump is shutout immediately by them. When trying to talk to the Trumpers about whatever, I've tried using stuff from places like the weekly standard or from people like Bill Kristol in order to meet them half way. That simply doesn't work. To them, Bill Kristol and his ilk are communist Trump haters just like how they view anyone like us who are left of center.

It's also frightening to think that thanks to Trump making extremist thinking more acceptable on the right, that somehow the Weekly Standard comes off looking like a moderating voice.

[barbtries]

12. exactly, and it's going away

which is what should really happen to the republican party once this shitshow is over.

[Progressive Jones]

22. The Weekly Standard is too high minded for the Trump crowd.

The Trumpish have a different agenda, and it doesn't involve intellectualism in the slightest.

[Paladin]

6. Good. (nt)

[karynnj]

10. Wasn't the Weekly Standard essentially the flagship Neocon magazine?

I know its foreign policy was neoconservative, but I am not positive it was the preeminet paper. It is interesting that Trump may have so splinter the Republicans that they can not sustain some of their previously strong voices.

Less neocon nonsense is great.

[Vogon_Glory]

13. OK Boys And Girls, Get on Your Backs, Limber Up Your Toes, Insert The Purple Crayons And

write on the walls "LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS!"

[KayF]

14. the Weekly Standard never made a profit

it was wingnut welfare, I guess this is wingnut welfare reform.

[alp227]

21. Neither did the Washington Times

As this article "The Right-Wing Paper Chase (And Money Pit)" explains, the largesse of wealthy owners kept papers like The Washington Times (in that case Sun Myung Moon) in circulation.

[Crowman2009]

15. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Yeah they were against Drumpy dumpy, but I don't give a fuck! I saw firsthand how they turned Iraq into hell on earth. Frankly, I'm glad the RW arseholes are cannibalizing each other.

[Firestorm49]

17. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Devil Child]

18. womp womp!

[smb]

19. I'll Send Thoughts & Prayers nt

[kwassa]

20. Their mistake: Republicans have no standards.