When you a magazine catering to a niche market, you can’t afford to alienate the majority of your base by hating the president they love.
But that’s exactly what Steve Hayes and Fred Barnes did to the Weekly Standard. Now, they are going the way of the whooping crane, the Dodo bird, and principled Democrats and will disappear from the face of the earth forever. Ever since the 2016 presidential campaign, they have been denigrating Donald Trump and it’s hard to fathom why.
Trump has directed possibly the most conservative government this country has ever experienced. It’s just a shame that Hayes and Barnes took so many people down with them. Can the National Review be far behind?
After 23 years of publication the Weekly Standard magazine will shut down this month.
The magazine once led conservative thought in America.
The fact that founder Bill Kristol harasses the Republican president on a daily basis could not save the magazine.
The Wrap reported:
The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine founded by Bill Kristol in 1995, will shut down, Ryan McKibben the CEO of the magazine’s parent company Clarity Media told staffers in an all-hands meeting on Friday morning.
The company made it official in a press statement a short time later. The last issue will be published on December 17.
“The Weekly Standard has been hampered by many of the same challenges that countless other magazines and newspapers across the country have been wrestling with,” McKibben said.
But don’t feel sad. It’s not like we lost a quality magazine.