Posted on 12/05/2018 8:19:29 AM PST by Eddie01
Bill Kristols Never Trump magazine The Weekly Standard is facing its imminent demise. Perhaps hate didnt 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 magazines subscriber lists.
Thats 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 isnt 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 theyve 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 couldnt 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 magazines owners have worked to sabotage TWS every step of the way and now want to harvest the magazines subscriber base to help support the Washington Examiner, which is now expanding into a nationally distributed magazine.
Truthfully, The Washington Examiner isnt 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. Its self-torture.
Whatever the reason, if the report is true, Hasta La Vista baby!
Karma is a bitch
Ha! Good!
The only bad news about this news is that it came 20+ years too late. If The Weekly Standard ever printed anything worth reading, it was purely by accident.
Now I'm glad to see them fold up. I hope Billy boy Kristol is proud of himself.
Kristol, “The white working class should BE REPLACED”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJSKhEwjy8
1 min.
Lots of failing Never Trumpers in the news, Cheeto-face and Levin partner to save themselves, Weekly Standard failing.
Shut it down and pour cement on top. Don’t want Kristol/NeoCon’ism returning in this form again.
Bill Kristol has said that he may run in the 2020 GOP primaries against Trump. I really hope that he does, it will be another chance to watch that pompous idiot fall flat on his repulsive, grinning face yet again. I’m guessing he’ll get a few hundred votes nation-wide, about equal to the readership of the Weekly Standard.
I dumped it a year ago. Got fed up with Bill Kristol’s whining.
More appropriate name for the ‘weekly standard’ would have been the RINO Standard.
Didn’t Newsweek sell for $1.00?
I’ll bid 85¢.
The Weekly Standard, like the Wall Street Journal, has always been a propaganda organ for the Cheap Labor Express, trying to convince US to give up our country without a fight.
Oh noes, no more “Conservative Cruises” where they fleece you.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
The Weekly Standard gets flushed down the American Standard.
The dead tree magazine is a dying business model, even if your stock in trade is photos of naked and semi-naked babes.
A dead tree rag whose mission is to constantly bash a guy who is supported by 80% of Republicans has no prayer.
If true, more good news and more winning for President Trump.
If they do close, President Trump will still be their president and our president.
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