Dog dirt dying...
Posted on 12/04/2018 4:36:22 PM PST by Ennis85
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 publisher 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. Instead, Ryan McKibben, the chairman of MediaDC, asked to meet with Hayes in a meeting tentatively scheduled for late next week, the people said. McKibben, they said, also requested the entire staff of The Weekly Standard be made available following the meeting. That request, coupled with MediaDC's Monday announcement that its other conservative news organization, The Washington Examiner, would be expanding its magazine into a weekly publication, has left The Weekly Standard's leadership worrying about the future of the magazine. Employees at the magazine are bracing for the worst, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Alex Rosenwald, a spokesperson for MediaDC, told CNN in a phone call on Tuesday morning that he was not aware of The Weekly Standard's situation. Rosenwald said he was focused only on the marketing for the just-announced Washington Examiner Magazine. Rosenwald did not respond to an email or phone call on Tuesday afternoon requesting comment after CNN had learned of Hayes' phone calls to staffers. However, after this story was originally published, a spokesperson for Clarity Media Group, Inc.,
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New name prediction: The Washington Weekly.
Billy and Freddy Barnes started the Standard in 1995 themselves.
oh I see!
thanks for the info.....
appreciated.....
It wasn’t “daddy’s” paper....
Apparently OANN scooped the story first, but CNN is dishonest and pretends it has its own story which is less specific than the original OANN story:
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1070088061864828931
Stupidity has it’s rewards.
Perhaps this pile of human excrement will take Bow Tie Boy with him!
Poor Kristol will lose his smirk.
You mean Granny?
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“Change it to the Monthly Standard.”
the “Annual Standard” would be even better ...
They have no audience anymore.
Bush League Republicans are becoming extinct.
Another win for Trump.
Thanks. Yes I’ve been corrected. I thought it was. Thanks
Maybe taking an editorial stance that conservative voters were stupid sellouts wasn’t such a great business plan after all.
s/b “RINO Nevertrump Losers on Brink of Failure”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3710621/posts
They deserve to go under... hope it’s quick.
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