"The New Republic", RIP!

[marv]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/12/tnr-veterans-protest-hughes-destruction-199613.html

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"As former editors and writers for The New Republic, we write to express our dismay and sorrow at its destruction in all but name," the editors and their former colleagues wrote in a statement, released Friday evening.

"From its founding in 1914, The New Republic has been the flagship and forum of American liberalism. Its reporting and commentary on politics, society, and arts and letters have nurtured a broad liberal spirit in our national life," the statement continues. "The magazine’s present owner and managers claim they are giving it new relevance while remaining true to its century-old mission. Instead, they seem determined to strip it of the intellectual, literary, and political commitments that have been its essence and meaning. Their pronouncements suggest that they hold those commitments in contempt."

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The letter comes one day after a shakeup that saw the resignation of top editor Franklin Foer and veteran literary editor Leon Wieseltier, both of whom resigned due to differences of vision with Hughes, a 31-year-old Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012. On Friday morning, more than two dozen of the magazine's senior and contributing editors quit the magazine en masse in protest.

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"The New Republic cannot be merely a 'brand.' It has never been and cannot be a 'media company' that markets 'content,'" the former editors and staffers wrote in their statement. "Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause. It has lasted through numerous transformations of the 'media landscape'—transformations that, far from rendering its work obsolete, have made that work ever more valuable."

"The New Republic is a kind of public trust," they continued. "That is something all its previous owners and publishers understood and respected. The legacy has now been trashed, the trust violated. It is a sad irony reality that at this perilous moment, with a reactionary variant of conservatism in the ascendancy, liberalism’s central journal rag should be scuttled with flagrant and frivolous abandon. There's still the bottom of the bird cage The promise of American life has been dealt a lamentable blow."

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For years, liberals have been binge drinking at the trough of chimera and delusion. Now the sun rises.

[Big Dog]

Hughes, a 31-year-old Facebook co-founder who bought the magazine in 2012.

His money, his rules.

"The New Republic cannot be merely a 'brand.' It has never been and cannot be a 'media company' that markets 'content,'" the former editors and staffers wrote in their statement. "Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause.

Spoken like someone who is not paying the bills. Skins' Misfit Children are the stupider version of these entitlement whores.

Guess what, cupcakes. It is a business, and if you can't earn a profit for the business owner, then GTFO.

[freedumb2003b]

"The New Republic cannot be merely a 'brand.' It has never been and cannot be a 'media company' that markets 'content,'" the former editors and staffers wrote in their statement. "Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business.

Making it what?  A charity?  A government?  A church?  An individual?

If it isn't a business, the staff should donate its collective time to it, right?

[JohnnyReb]

Did Putin cut off funding?

[Dori]

Did they call the San Diego hot shot reporter with the crackerjack press badge?

[JohnnyReb]

Did they call the San Diego hot shot reporter with the crackerjack press badge?

Her salary demands were to high....and if she used the good rig, they were outrageous.

[JohnnyReb]

Did they call the San Diego hot shot reporter with the crackerjack press badge?

Her salary demands were to high....and if she used the good rig, they were outrageous.

[ColonelCarrots]

Sounds capitalist. Sucks to be them.

[Donpeyote]

Orson Welles Clapping

[obumazombie]

It wasn't a business, because if it was...they didn't build it.