3. The core of Brooks article is the correct observation that it's difficult to produce a high-brow political cultural magazine under capitalism because there's no market for it. But Brooks being Brooks, he avoids calling it capitalism & talks of "corporate bureaucrats."
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14. I can't believe I'm typing this but Baseball Crank (
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15. I actually think there's a good argument that GOP big money guys are being myopic & stupid here. Something like The Weekly Standard is a good investment as a Plan B for if Trump crashes and burns.
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16. I mean it's not too difficult to imagine whole Trump thing collapsing (through scandals & Trump's own personality). If that happens, it would be useful for GOP to have a group of people who can credibly say they opposed this all along.
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17. In general, Brooks column would've been better if it acknowledged the problem was TWS's business model & not some grand trend of "corporate bureaucrats."
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18. On the right, I think American Conservative, Modern Age &
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19. I was wondering why Brooks' column rubbed me the wrong way. I finally figured it out. Brooks wants GOP plutocrats to hand him & his buddies lots of dough to write whatever they want, no questions asked. That seems a bit entitled.
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Post Trump TWS had a few interesting conservative writers and they'll be even better somewhere else
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But it isn't that they don't care about the product. The product is the illusion that their pet talking points and policies command a level of credence and public legitimacy that they don't. The product is the lie concealed by the funding model.
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The fall may have more to do with the editor in chief's decision to phone in his work from Spain than with some important cultural moment. If I was Anschutz and some guy I'd been paying pulled a stunt like that, I'm pretty sure I'd be fed up, too.
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There's like, five of those in the world. Might as well make a business model depending on black, LGBT single mothers who vote Republican.
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