In case you missed it: the two top guys (Franklin Foer and Leon Wieseltie) quit TNR today, in what they would call ‘high dudgeon’ and I would call ‘a snit.’ It’s a justified snit, honestly – owner Chris Hughes (still smarting from his inability to buy a House seat for his husband) apparently decided to finally demonstrate to TNR that it’s a product, not a magazine – but a snit nonetheless. Topping on the cake? What Politico neglected to mention is that the new editor (Gabriel Snyder) used to work for Gawker.
Gawker! It’s a miracle that the remaining staff didn’t commit seppeku en masse at the shame.
Moe Lane
PS: Chris Hughes is never going to be invited to certain parties ever again in his life. Not parties that I or you would want to go to; but parties that he might have.
PPS: I’m sorry, I have to say it again. …Gawker!
The New Gawker Republic.
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Has a ring to it…. but I think a thorough cleaning with a mild abrasive will clear it up.
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Mew
The Gawker Republic sounds better – and has a certain sad truth to it.
So their solution to people no longer subscribing due to their leftist slant is to move even further to the left…
Hey it worked for MSNBC.* An increasing number of media are owned not just by leftists, but left-wing hipster hacks. To produce art is to be esoteric and unintelligible, lest it be seen as “selling-out” to the unwashed masses.
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*You laugh, but it’s miraculously still on the air. The twisted model has something going for it, though I’m damned** if I know what it is.
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**Theological opinion. Because MSNBC.
MSNBC is on the air because of bundled cable
Yep. And .. that keeps inching closer to the end of its’ useful lifespan.
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Sadly, AT&T appear to have bought into the “more money if you can bundle” meme, and the small ISP (indeed, the internet-only service provider altogether) has gone the way of the dodo, so ..
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Mew
I can’t believe I’m actually feeling sorry for people who have been strident ideological foes for many, many years.
The rot has been infused into The New Republic for many years. I recall that in the early 1980s Leon Wieseltier wrote an essay condemning Ballistic Missile Defense (this was before Reagan’s “Star Wars” program). One of his explicit arguments against BMD was that if the Soviets launched a first strike, and our countermeasures shot down their missiles “either in the atmosphere or in the air” [sic], some of those missiles could explode over the Soviet Union and that would be perceived as a hostile, provocative act by us.
As Dave Barry would say, “I am not making this up!”