Posted on 12/18/2018 2:55:03 PM PST by rintintin
Ive only been around Phil Anschutz a few times. My impressions on those occasions was that he was a run-of-the-mill arrogant billionaire. He was used to people courting him and he addressed them condescendingly from the lofty height of his own wealth.
Ive never met Ryan McKibben, who runs part of Anschutzs media group. But stories about him have circulated around Washington over the years. The stories suggest that he is an ordinary corporate bureaucrat with all the petty vanities and the lack of interest in ideas that go with the type.
This week, Anschutz and McKibben murdered The Weekly Standard, the conservative opinion magazine that Anschutz owned. They didnt merely close it because it was losing money. They seemed to have murdered it out of greed and vengeance.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
no ad revenue?
why, the Weekly Standard, of course
Pro Globalism and Free Trade killed the Meekly Slandered
Bill Kristol and the Never Trumpers drove the final nails in the coffin.
Bill worthless Crystal
I'm sure they are s'bags but I thank them nevertheless.
oh barf
Was it ever really alive or perhaps just in a coma?
It would be kind of funny and appropriate if their new magazine was staffed solely by H1B immigrants and illegals ...
The globalist elites, who tried to poison Americans against President Trump.
The Weekly Standard killed
Itself.
Bill Kristol Tweets There Will be an Independent Challenger to Trump and Hillary
...and he doesn't know when to quit.
Who? Never ‘read’ them ...
‘’no ad revenue?’’
You are so correct. Anschutz was born with a million dollars and turned it into a billion dollars.
I have not followed Anschutz political leanings in recent years, but if he still is a fairly conservative person, I can see why he closed the Weekly Standard.
No revenue and increasingly leftist writers.
Suicide ?
I suggest it was Mr. Kristol, in the Lounge, with the keyboard. Can you disprove me?
Steve Hayes was leisurely trimming his fingernails with his pocketknife and Bill Kristol ran into it 17 times.
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