It's a good thing Chris Hughes likes to break things, because he's irreparably broken The New Republic.
The people who read TNR (myself included) do so specifically because it's been a bastion of traditional journalism, and moreover we read it for specific writers & contributing editors, and since they've all resigned now, TNR is dead.
Outside of a very small sliver of the population nobody's ever even heard of the The New Republic — it's not a brand name that Hughes can gut and remodel. The New Republic is not a brand that anyone cares about; we cared about the content, the writers and the editors.
I can see no way for TNR to carry on as a viable operation. As a TNR reader for more than 30 years, it makes me rather sad.
The people who read TNR (myself included) do so specifically because it's been a bastion of traditional journalism, and moreover we read it for specific writers & contributing editors, and since they've all resigned now, TNR is dead.
Outside of a very small sliver of the population nobody's ever even heard of the The New Republic — it's not a brand name that Hughes can gut and remodel. The New Republic is not a brand that anyone cares about; we cared about the content, the writers and the editors.
I can see no way for TNR to carry on as a viable operation. As a TNR reader for more than 30 years, it makes me rather sad.
This is all so stupid and sad.