Posted on 12/05/2014 10:49:17 AM PST by mojito
In a memo to staff yesterday announcing a masthead shake-up, New Republic chief executive Guy Vidra wrote that a reduction in the frequency of the 100-year-old magazine would require a staff restructuring, a common euphemism for layoffs. Well, that may not be necessary considering that a whole herd of staffers resigned en masse following the defenestration of top editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier. Have a look at the departures....
Perhaps the restructuring will now come in the form of a hiring spree to fill vacancies created by the newsroom-wide disgust with Foers firing. A group of staffers met at Foers house last night for a New Republic wake. Apparently the resolve for a mass show of force, rumored yesterday, stiffened overnight.
Yesterdays memo from Vidra promised an all-hands meeting to help answer any questions or concerns you may have.
Okay, but the executives in that meeting, Vidra and Publisher Chris Hughes, didnt take any questions from staffers, according to an informed source. Instead, Vidra and Hughes made some remarks and then adjourned the session so that management could get to the business of publishing the next print edition of the New Republic perhaps quite a task in light of the mass-bolting.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hardly agreed with him on anything but Humphrey was a decent man. A better man than Lyndon Johnson or Robert Kennedy for sure. And in no way comparable to the outright frauds and traitors running the Democrat Party now.
Yes!
They could always bring back Stephen Glass and promote him to editor.
Very true.
Since December 2000, they really haven't had much of a reason to continue to publish.
Maybe she'll find a home like young Betty Friedan did, grinding out Stalinist agitprop materials and prolefeed for the Communist Party. Check these guys: http://www.revcom.us/ Bob Avakian is about as Enver Hoxha-ish as they come. Angela will love him (the _Resident no doubt already does).
Then there's always Politico.com. They can always use good word-twisters.
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I looked it up.
I knew it had something to do with windows, but was unsure as to what...
Ain't nobody got time fo dat!
We've let the communication channels be TAKEN OVER by leftists! (And probably made a GOOD profit; too!)
I hope and pray you have a good successor in line!
I've just received a call from Mitt.
How much would it cost to BUY TNR?
I love watch liberals in a fish bowl destroying each other.
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