Posted on 07/14/2021 12:19:39 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
After the 2016 election, a flurry of reports noted Donald Trump’s election was breathing new life into our decaying media industry now that they had important work to do, in a quest to save America from tangerine-tinged fascism. Via NBC News, here’s an update on how that’s working out at one of America’s prestige publications:
Nicholas Thompson, the chief executive of The Atlantic, gave a presentation to employees last month in which he disclosed some uncomfortable truths about the state of the magazine.
Subscription growth, which had skyrocketed in 2020 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic and the presidential election, had come back down to earth. For the first time, the number of subscribers had plateaued and started to slightly decline. And even with last year’s substantial surge, the magazine had lost more than $20 million and was on track to lose another $10 million this year, according to slides of the presentation shared with NBC News.
Left unsaid, of course, is how foregoing all sense of ethics, propriety, restraint, and good judgment possibly hurt their business model. Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg is no doubt still hunting down on-the-record sources for his anonymous report on Trump calling dead American soldiers “suckers” and “losers” after more than 20 people in the Trump administration publicly denied it...
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Iowa hawk is a terrific satirist of politics, and funny to boot. Used to post here as … Iowahawk.
One of the good guys.
Yeah, I remember. Wonder why he stopped. Oh well.
Isn’t that the magazine finances by Jobs widow? Her pockets are insanely deep, she’ll pick up the tab to keep all those reporters and editors employed.
That crappy publication questioned Trump’s sanity, sexuality.... you name it. The only saving grace is that we don’t get as much of their garbage posted here as The Hill and Breitbart.
Wiki, from Alpine heights: “The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, as The Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers’ commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood[3][4] and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier.[5][6] James Russell Lowell was its first editor.[7” To a puerile read.
the Atlantic is one of the very few hard-leftist publications that is sometimes worth reading. they have a couple of very capable writers (James Fallows comes to mind, a man who can think clearly when he wants to.. and who can research his articles well).
Having said this, life is really too short to spend time reading what are usually just Stalinist (or quasi=Nazi in the case of, say, the NYT) propaganda rags.
I agree. As long as they are reviewing <= Mahler era music it’s pretty good.
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