Like this? BTW, I was born in February 1960.
Posted on 12/05/2014 10:49:17 AM PST by mojito
In a memo to staff yesterday announcing a masthead shake-up, New Republic chief executive Guy Vidra wrote that a reduction in the frequency of the 100-year-old magazine would require a staff “restructuring,” a common euphemism for layoffs. Well, that may not be necessary considering that a whole herd of staffers resigned en masse following the defenestration of top editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier. Have a look at the departures....
Perhaps the “restructuring” will now come in the form of a hiring spree to fill vacancies created by the newsroom-wide disgust with Foer’s firing. A group of staffers met at Foer’s house last night for a New Republic “wake.” Apparently the resolve for a mass show of force, rumored yesterday, stiffened overnight.
Yesterday’s memo from Vidra promised an “all-hands meeting … to help answer any questions or concerns you may have.”
Okay, but the executives in that meeting, Vidra and Publisher Chris Hughes, didn’t take any questions from staffers, according to an informed source. Instead, Vidra and Hughes made some remarks and then adjourned the session so that management could get to the business of publishing the next print edition of the New Republic — perhaps quite a task in light of the mass-bolting.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And now the last grownups just turned out the lights.
The techies and the progressive cultists are now in charge.
The New Republic now joins those other bastions of thinking, literate liberalism - the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harpers - on the ash heap of history.
RIP.
Did they really throw him from a window?
I've seen that word maybe 3 times since I learned it back in high school by reading slavic 'literature'.
/johnny
This is sort of sad. It’s a signature American periodical.
Better than being thrown under a bus, I suppose..............
Don't be that guy.
/johnny
And editing. Lord, did that go away.
/johnny
Like this? BTW, I was born in February 1960.
Soviet agent Michael Straight was publisher of The New Republic in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He recruited Henry Wallace as Editor before Wallace ran for President in 1948 on a Stalinist platform.
The magazine’s “honest liberal” soul walked out the door with Marty Peretz.
Ah, there’s a name from the past. I’d almost forgotten him.
let me guess...Straight was gay!
I always celebrate when commies bite the dust...regardless
It was highschool for me too. Specifically the section of Western Civ dealing with the Defenistration of Prague.
Its a good word. I like using it (the WORD, not the act!) on my kids occasionally when they act up.
It wasn’t always like that though. Leon Wieseltier is no communist.
Someone on our side of the aisle should buy it.
Chris Hughes – aged 30, American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg (raised Jewish but now an avowed atheist and CEO of Facebook), Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin.
APR 2009 How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign
At age 25 he became the coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website. Many political pundits attribute BHO’s victory to Hughes by his unleashing of BHO’s voter base over the internet and thereby changing politics and marketing forever.
In MAR 2012, he purchased a majority stake in The New Republic magazine – the flagship political journal of liberal thought in the U.S. for 98 years. He is now the publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine at age 30. The previous editor-in-chief, Martin Peretz, who served from 1974 until 2011, wrote in FEB 2013 that, “The New Republic has abandoned its liberal but heterodox tradition and embraced a leftist outlook as predictable as that of Mother Jones or The Nation."
July 1, 2012 - Chris Hughes (aged 28) and Sean Eldridge (aged 25) were married at their home in Garrison, N.Y. William J. Corbett, a retired village justice of Floral Park, N.Y., officiated.
2/11/2013 cover of The New Republic
I hadn’t heard before now TNR was going under.
Well.. what a friggin’ shame.
What’s Angela Davis going to do now, with her writing outlet now fallen by the wayside?
Imagine liberating a longtime publication from the clutches of liberalism.
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