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Fate of The Weekly Standard is uncertain, editor tells staff
CNN ^ | December 4th, 2018 | By Oliver Darcy

Posted on 12/04/2018 2:33:43 PM PST by Mariner

New York (CNN Business)The fate of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine that has staked out a position as a publication on the right still critical of President Donald Trump, is uncertain, Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes told staff in a series of phone calls Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The magazine's precarious position comes after its leadership spent months searching for a buyer, the people told CNN.

The people explained that The Weekly Standard's leadership had butted heads with MediaDC, the current parent company of the magazine, and that the two parties had agreed to allow Hayes to search for a new owner.

However, MediaDC recently informed The Weekly Standard's leadership that the company was no longer interested in a sale, the people said.

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To: Mariner

Real brilliant move by the Weekly Standard setting itself up as a never-Trump rag.


21 posted on 12/04/2018 2:43:53 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Mariner; Sidebar Moderator

IMO, this is front page news.


22 posted on 12/04/2018 2:46:13 PM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Shadow44

Two biggest scumbag outfits, Weakly STD and NR


23 posted on 12/04/2018 2:46:36 PM PST by Okeydoker
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To: Mariner

Let Soros fund it. It is a NeoCon globalist propaganda source, it advances his cause/beliefs.


24 posted on 12/04/2018 2:47:05 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Mariner
[The fate of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine that has staked out a position as a publication on the right still critical of President Donald Trump, is uncertain.]

They might enjoy this Tom Cruise movie. Perhaps it will explain where their "uncertain" is going.



Can't wait until they're sold for $1. Just like Newsweak.
25 posted on 12/04/2018 2:49:28 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Mariner

Bill kristol can be CNN’s Conservative token if he will disavow everything except his hatred for Trump.


26 posted on 12/04/2018 2:49:43 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: Revenge of Sith

the problem is that nobody reads magazines anymore

those with the intellect to read access online sources


27 posted on 12/04/2018 2:51:20 PM PST by bert (mthem (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: LongWayHome

I’d say writing a book “proving” that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and claiming that Iraq was behind the anthrax attacks in a dishonest effort to start a war that’s lasted 16 years is a little worse than being a never-Trumper. Hayes, Kristol & the rest will receive justice someday.


28 posted on 12/04/2018 2:53:18 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Stawp the hammering!)
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To: Mariner

Now, for the NYSlimes and CNN.


29 posted on 12/04/2018 2:53:53 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: boomop1

[Deep State Blues.]

yep

I parked my BMW in Manhattan with an issue of Newsweek and an issue of The Weekly Standard on the dashboard.

When I returned, the driver’s window had been smashed and there were 5 more copies of The Weekly Standard and 5 more copies of Newsweek.

Insurance will pay for the window. But when I find who left those extra copies.....


30 posted on 12/04/2018 2:54:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Mariner

Best news I’ve heard all day. Thanks for the post!


31 posted on 12/04/2018 2:54:34 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Forgotten Amendments

The Standard was, from the start, a neo-con rag....sadly Bush 43 was the dupe they needed.


32 posted on 12/04/2018 2:54:51 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Mariner
Assume the position, Weekly Standard.


33 posted on 12/04/2018 2:55:07 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: Mariner

Don’t be surprised if some liberal buys it and lets it continue as a ‘conservative’ magazine.


34 posted on 12/04/2018 2:56:05 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: litehaus

“Now if only Fox would drop..”

Could have stopped there.


35 posted on 12/04/2018 2:58:17 PM PST by Luke21 (Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work work.)
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To: Mariner
I wouldn't go on a Weekly Standard cruise if you paid me, but they weren't the worst magazine ever.

They had more money than National Review so their coverage was wider and deeper than NR's.

I definitely won't go on a cruise now.

Kristol might sink the boat to collect on the insurance.

36 posted on 12/04/2018 3:00:20 PM PST by x
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To: zanarchist
"LOL payback is a you know what"

Go ahead. You can say it.

Payback is a Joy Behar.

37 posted on 12/04/2018 3:00:21 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Mariner

I’ve never understood these ideological purists with their snobby attitudes towards anyone they deemed to be unworthy of their support because they didn’t have what they considered to be proper bonafide to join their elitist club. Even when Trump accomplished goals they had been trying to attain since before Reagan they still reject his nationalist approach to governance.


38 posted on 12/04/2018 3:00:31 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Mariner

Canceled subscription years ago, when they started promoting “national greatness conservatism” aka neocon socialism


39 posted on 12/04/2018 3:01:29 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: vigilence

These guys never wanted to attain any of that. They wanted it all just slightly out of reach so we’d keep buying their mags and donating to and voting for their pet politicians.


40 posted on 12/04/2018 3:07:20 PM PST by Rastus
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