Posted on 02/28/2019 10:32:36 AM PST by JonPreston
Jonah Goldberg is leaving National Review in the coming months to start a new conservative media company with Steve Hayes, who was editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard when its owner shut it down in December.
Details: Goldberg and Hayes tell me they plan a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical company that will begin with newsletters as soon as this summer, then add a website in September, and perhaps ultimately a print magazine.
Hayes, the likely CEO, and Goldberg, likely the editor-in-chief, are the founders.
Hayes tells me about the startup, which doesnt have a name now: "We believe theres a great appetite on the center-right for an independent conservative media company that resists partisan boosterism and combines a focus on old-school reporting with interesting and provocative commentary and analysis."
Hayes and Goldberg are seeking investors.
I predict a faceplant.
Just what we need: another Trump skeptical media company!
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It’s not Trump skepticism that bothers me. It’s their flat out GOPe Uniparty ideology support preaching that does.
Jonah and all his ilk in the Never-Trump train were “approved opposition”. They were always the lap dogs of the left and the bum boys of the most corrupt of the GOP.
Maybe he can get the rights to the “Air America” name.
According to the #neverTrumpers, 60 million+ Trump supporters are a “cult” but the 15-20 remaining “principled conservatives” are not
Has anyone missed The Weekly Standard?
Yes...
2 Anti Trump Losers = Loser New Site.
No market for Never Trumpers. May they quickly go the way of the Weekly Standard.
“Goldberg and Hayes tell me they plan a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical company....”
These are inside-the-Beltway, RINO, Never-Trumpers...and there is no more need to pay attention to them with this new venture than at any time since Trump came down the escalator in June, 2015.
National Review is becoming more supportive of Trump. Goldberg and Hayes will in time do so as well.
And they say polar bears are stranded on shrinking ice floes.
The market for National Review Conservatism is disappearing.
If you want to sell magazines the future lies either in
Trump Populism or AOC wingnut Socialism.
Is it wrong of me that I’ve begun hoping for the Trump Curse to strike some people?
I agree completely. The Kristols, Rubins, Wilsons, and Wallaces of the world are obvious dbags. But Jonah (and David French for that matter) should know better.
“Just what we need: another Trump skeptical media company!”
Not at all!
That these oafs are even contemplating a magazine as a business model should tell an investor about their business acumen.
LOL!
I didn’t even know that about Condi.
And every time I read something of his, I see him in short pants, sitting on Lucianne’s lap and getting schooled.
She still echoes through him.
I’m sure you’ll have George Will and that Billy Kristol sh*thead on there too.
This has about as much chance for success as a snow ball in Haiti.
That is funny :P
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