Posted on 12/05/2018 8:19:29 AM PST by Eddie01
Bill Kristol’s Never Trump magazine — The Weekly Standard — is facing its imminent demise. Perhaps hate didn’t sell too well with Conservatives and Republicans. The owners of the publication, Media DC, say they are going to concentrate on their other outlet instead, The Washington Examiner, Vox reports.
A source told Vox reporter Joan Coaston, “This is not about dwindling subscribers. This is about strip-mining TWS for its assets” — namely, the magazine’s subscriber lists.
That’s not likely 100 percent truthful.
Founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard is best known as a publication aimed at “neoconservatives” aka neocons. Neocons are a dying breed. They followed a hawkish foreign policy which is less popular these days.
Also, maybe bashing Trump daily isn’t as much of a money maker and vehicle of conservative thought as Kristol assumed. Shocker!
The Chief White House Correspondent for One America News, Emerald Robinson reported Tuesday that the magazine will close down in a few weeks.
Robinson says they’ve been losing subscribers since 2016: BREAKING: Multiple sources tell me that neocon magazine @weeklystandard is expected to close its operations in a few weeks. It had lost many subscribers since the 2016 election as its #NeverTrumper editors @BillKristol @stephenfhayes @SykesCharlie publicly aligned with the Left.
— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) December 4, 2018
In addition to Kristol, Stephen Hayes and Charlie Sykes lined up against Trump. That was a bad idea. They should have remained neutral if they couldn’t say anything nice.
The truth is the magazine is often unbearable reading for those of us who want the President to succeed.
According to Vox, staffers say the magazine’s owners “have worked to sabotage TWS every step of the way” and now want to harvest the magazine’s subscriber base to help support the Washington Examiner, which is now expanding into a nationally distributed magazine.
Truthfully, The Washington Examiner isn’t tainted and is three times as popular.
The magazine honchos literally aligned with the far-left. Maybe conservatives had enough negativity from the left without suffering through it from the right. It’s self-torture.
Whatever the reason, if the report is true, Hasta La Vista baby!
D’oh!
Christmas comes early!
AMF
I liked the book and movie reviews.
Perfect comeuppance for Kristol, love it.
Lol! Good.
The centerfold of hitlary killed it.
Couldn’t happen to a nastier bunch of globalist traitors.
Back in 2009-2010...I subscribed to it for two years. There might have been three really decent articles in it each week, and the book reviews were always five-star, I thought. But they’d mix in McCain-like chatter and it was some odd mix of GOP enthusiasm. I haven’t touched it since 2015.
Nice, I like seeing the wheels come off the Never Trump/anti Trump media
One down
Thousands more to go
Good, Kristol can spend more time with his family and that’s overdue.
Good news. Kristol is an ass. He’s basically a war-mongering leftist.
A pretty low standard I’d say.
Karma!
Just merge with the Blaze.
Soros will no longer fund :(
By proxy Kristol was bashing the people who voted for Trump (who also realize that is what is going on ). A number of those would be people who would even consider reading that publication.
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