Posted December 6, 2014 9:05 PM ET; Last updated December 21, 2014 12:16 AM ET
Courtesy of Ryan Lizza, here the list of those who have left:
[From article]
Despite attempts by New Republic to laugh off Straight’s KGB’s affiliation, the most important journal of the Left, was owned for nearly a decade by a bona fide communist who, despite his protestations to the contrary, had not changed his allegiance to the Soviet Union.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/the_emnew_republicsem_dirty_secret.html
December 18, 2014
The New Republic's Dirty Secret
By Bernie Reeves
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Updated December 15, 2014 7:49 PM ET
[From article]
Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook with an estimated fortune of more than half a billion dollars, bought T.N.R. in 2012, [. . .] Hughes signed a ten-year lease and told his writers that the magazine would stay in Washington for a long time.
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Thirty-six out of thirty-eight contributing editors, who are a mix of contract writers, semi-regular contributors, and T.N.R. alumni, resigned or asked to have their names removed from the masthead
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incoming editor, Gabriel Snyder, who had previously worked as the editor of Gawker and the Wire. Snyder did not know many people on staff, and had never edited a magazine.
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The New Republic, which was co-founded by Walter Lippmann, would devolve into a click-bait factory. He explained that he had studied history and literature at Harvard.
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On the morning that Tim Cook, the C.E.O. of Apple, announced that he was gay, [. . ] another sign of what’s happened to liberalism today, where rights/identity liberalism trumps economic liberalism,” he wrote. “This is, after all, a guy who embodies so much of what’s amiss in the age of inequality—pulling down $378 million in 2011 alone; Apple skirting taxes more brazenly than anyone else—yet those revelations have caused barely a stir.”
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“Has anyone, including this article, said what they did was illegal? Companies have an obligation to their shareholders to maximize shareholder value, including through strategic tax planning.”
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Vidra didn’t mention the magazine’s journalism. “Never did he once allude to the history of the magazine,”
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“There’s the peacetime C.E.O. and the wartime C.E.O. Not to be overly dramatic about it, but this is sort of a war.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-republic
December 12, 2014 12:39 PM
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic
BY RYAN LIZZA
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[From article]
Still, as has been made clear by a number of media-watchers, the rot is much, much deeper than that. Contrary the reports of some outlets, this does not seem to have been a battle between modernizers and traditionalists, but rather a fight to the death between those who wished to work for a storied magazine and those who wished to be led by a myopic bunch of clowns who are incapable of speaking in anything other than moronic platitudes.
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In an interview with The New York Times last month, Hughes said he no longer even thinks about TNR as a magazine. “Today, I don’t call it a magazine at all. I think we’re a digital media company.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394063/new-republic-commits-suicide-charles-c-w-cooke
The New Republic Commits Suicide
By Charles C. W. Cooke
National Review
December 5, 2014 12:23 PM
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