TNR Illustrates The Dangers Of Being A Hood Ornament

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TNR Illustrates The Dangers Of Being A Hood Ornament

DECEMBER 5, 2014 By Ben Domenech

 

Lefty media is throwing shade at Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, for the surprising departures of editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier. Ten contributing editors have resigned, only some via Twitter. Foer and Wieseltier are departing because of their incompatibility with Hughes’ vision of TNR as a “digital media company” rather than a magazine, as they told the NYT recently, in discussions about the magazine’s 100th anniversary:

 

Mr. Hughes (who gave up the editor in chief title but remains publisher) and Mr. Vidra dismissed speculation that they wanted to take the magazine in a more lowbrow, BuzzFeed-like direction. But they did say there was room to increase the digital audience to as much as “tens of millions” of unique monthly visitors by focusing on a broader range of topics and on new forms of digital storytelling that “travel well” on the web.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/05/tnr-illustrates-the-dangers-of-being-a-hood-ornament/

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

Hinge Of History?

 

I have heard he doesn't like to read long articles.