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---=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-are-major-newspapers-and-magazines-hiring-so-many-right-wing-cranks">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-are-major-newspapers-and-magazines-hiring-so-many-right-wing-cranks</a> something charming and retrograde about the shrieking chorus that erupts online every time a major newspaper or legacy magazine hires some new dumbass to write opinions a few times a week. We all get to pretend that any of this still matters, that it’s not all just whistling into the void in a universe where a functionally illiterate American president gets all his information from a garish morning program, and your 60-something moms and dads receive their news from chain-letter-quality Facebook memes. Even those of us who still peruse the opinion pages can’t remember the last thing we read there. Even those of us who write this stuff are pressed to pretend it’s anything other than more frothy ephemera bobbing on the surface of a vast, rising ocean of content.Many of the most loudly contested recent hires have been of so-called Never Trump conservatives, a cohort of exactly four-dozen people in three zip codes. Fortunately for them, they do have a natural constituency, which consists entirely of the editors of prestige publications. These are people—both the posturing writers and the editors who hire them—with an abiding commitment to the line that our current president represents the inception of something entirely new and gross in our political system, which allows them to conveniently elide the racist savagery of American politics, and American conservativism in particular, more or less from the get-go.<div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />The Atlantic, for instance, whose stable of writers includes former George W. Bush speechwriter #NeverTrumper David Frum, just hired Kevin D. Williamson. A former National Review writer, Williamson was swiftly taken to task on Twitter for proposing that women who have abortions should be hanged, and for once describing an African-American boy as a “three-fifths-scale Snoop Dogg.” (He has since deleted his account.) You may recall another well-known American document that refers to black people by this percentage. Williamson drops this deliberate provocation (he is daring you to call him racist, so he can deny it and accuse you of a deliberately uncharitable reading) immediately after describing the boy as “raising his palms to his clavicles, elbows akimbo, in the universal gesture of primate territorial challenge.” ("Well, humans are primates," he would argue, if you bothered to point out that this, too, is racist trash.)Williamson has written that dying towns should be left to die, that mobile rootlessness is the key to economic prosperity, and that price gouging after natural disasters is fine and good. These would appear to cut slightly against some of the central rhetorical commitments of conservative writing and thought, which valorizes small-town America, imagines church and family as the central institutions of communal life, and proposes that private charity could pick up the slack for disaster relief and health and human services. We should instead untangle our social networks, abandon our congregations and let Main Street go to seed as our tiny nuclear families blast around America, from one city to another, in search of some tenuous at-will job. How will we pay for the U-Haul, the motels, the first and last months’ rent? Who cares. The truth is that this only seems to cut against conservativism, whose ideals about community were never more than rhetorical, except of course when it came to race, for which the specific boundaries of particular communities retain a totemic power.Williamson wasn’t the worst writer the Atlantic could have hired. At the National Review, where you can also encounter the fatuous Jonah Goldberg or the perpetually morally panicked David French, he is very nearly reasonable, even if he still appears slightly mad to those of us outside of the asylum. He’s merely a tedious crank. But a lot of tedious cranks seem to be popping up in the upper echelons of opinion journalism these days, and it does well to ask why.The editors and publishers will tell you that it is so that their overwhelmingly liberal audiences may be exposed to new ideas, as if readers of the Atlantic are unaware that conservatives think affirmative action is bad and subscribers to the New York Times don’t know that there are people who pretend to think that climate change is phony. And if you are the sort of person who complains about these hires online, someone will surely pop into your Twitter mentions to remind you that the outrage machine drives lots of clicks and page views.The truth, though, is that these columnists are all hired as part of a project of desperate make-believe, in which it is possible to imagine that Donald Trump and our present politics really are a singular event, a historic deviation. In their fantasy, there remain two broadly similar and functional political parties whose respective ideologies meet in a nebulous but desirable middle, wherein reasonable men and their reasonable institutions can yet function as they ever have. It’s a fairly rosy portrayal of American political history to begin with, but there was at least a sense that it was superficially, if only superficially, true. This genteel fiction permits the mandarins of respectable media to indulge the most preposterous fiction of them all, which is that the modern conservative movement in America isn't absolutely and irredeemably deranged.This is not to overcredit a deeply compromised and corrupt American liberalism, especially in the form of a Democratic Party that more often than not resembles a finishing school for communications professionals and future Wall Street placeholders. But only if we pretend that a tiny cadre of idiosyncratic urban conservatives are in some way representative of even a plurality of conservative thought in this country can we imagine that at a root level, this all amounts to differing attitudes about market incentives and land use policies—that it was ever about any of that to begin with. If that is not the case, then it throws into stark relief the broader identities of these publications as largely neutral arbitrators of a national conversation, and that might mean they’d face some moral obligation to pick a side.
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<h1 class="title">Time Gives Up on Factchecking: Corporate Media Can't Find a Way to Tell the Truth</h1>

<div class="meta">by <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/users/35278/prw-staff" title="View user profile.">PRW Staff</a> — December 10, 2012 - 9:39am</div>

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<li class="vocabulary-2">Topics: <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/topics/media">Media</a>, <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/topics/politics">Politics</a></li>

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--by Peter Hart, <a href="http://fair.org/slider/time-gives-up-on-factchecking/" target="_blank">originally published in FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)</a>

In October, the inevitable was announced: Struggling Newsweek magazine would be finished as a print publication as of the end of the year. But the last mass newsweekly left, Time, also made an announcement of sorts: It was out of the factchecking business.

"Who Is Telling the Truth? The Fact Wars," read Time's <a href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20121015,00.html" target="_blank">October 15 cover</a>. With a setup like that, one might have hoped for a bold break from the campaign pack, an acknowledgment that facts matter, and that politicians who run on a record of resisting reality should be exposed.

Instead Time told a more familiar story, one in which both major parties commit comparable "factual recklessness," because accuracy—and reality—are less important than the appearance of evenhandedness. In the article, and a subsequent response to critics, the magazine essentially waved the white flag in the journalistic war against political deception.

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Respected economists like Brad DeLong and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman noted gross factual inaccuracies in Niall Ferguson's Newsweek cover story. Newsweek took no responsibility for any inaccuracies though, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2FRAlguR&utm_campaign=weekly_823_2&n=9&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email">casually admitting that they don't even fact check</a> the articles they publish. Against a backdrop of shrinking newsrooms and layoffs, I explained how the conservative echo chamber exploits such vulnerabilities:   <a href="http://mm4a.org/RAlguR">http://mm4a.org/RAlguR</a>

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Fox and the right-wing echo chamber exploit these vulnerabilities in the media. When the media process seems shoddy (regardless of whether it actually is) and the result produces news that is inconsistent with conservative ideology, right-wing media pounce and attack the outlet as part of some left-wing media cabal. We've seen Fox do this from <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/09/16/will-fox-news-hold-beck-to-its-dan-rather-stand/154643">Dan Rather</a> to <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/04/fox-news-attacks-left-wing-blog-politico-for-weak-gop-field/">Politico</a> to <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78793.html">ABC News</a> to <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/nbc-news/2012/04/12/nbc-news-apologizes-attacking-romneys-religion">MSNBC</a> and more. On the other hand, when they find the argument useful, the right-wing echo chamber can <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2009/07/10/newsweek-blog-fox-nation-marvel-that-obama-met/151909">herald</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/18/nbc-news-plays-its-role-in-the-fox-cycle/187207">the piece</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/06/15/ap-chops-off-context-to-falsely-suggest-obama-t/184996">and ignore</a> inaccuracies within.

It's no surprise that while discussing Ferguson's article across multiple programs, Fox never discussed the myriad factual problems in Ferguson's piece that one could find <a href="http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/ferguson-niall-google-search.jpg">with a rudimentary Google search</a>. This is even as Ferguson's self-professed friend who writes for the same outlet called the piece "<a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/fisking.html">absurd propaganda</a>."

But Fox ingeniously imbues its perspective with what Stephen Colbert famously labeled "<a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/24039/october-17-2005/the-word%3Chr%20/%3Etruthiness">truthiness</a>." For example, appearing on On the Record With Greta Van Susteren, here is how Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York described Ferguson:

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Meanwhile, Newsweek's avoidance of fact-checking is just one example of a larger erosion of journalism, led by <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/pr-industry-fills-vacuum-left-by-shrinking-newsrooms">shrinking newsrooms</a>, <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-09-24/entertainment/29978475_1_staff-cuts-sidney-harman-newsweek">layoffs</a>, and <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/newsweek-is-not-going-online-only-just-yet.html">more</a>. The erosion of the structures of journalism in turn fuels a growing <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/184480/poll-political-media-viewed-unfavorably-by-78-percent-of-people/">lack of credibility</a> for the media in general, and offers an opportunity for the conservative echo chamber to fill the gap. This trend is incredibly hard to reverse, largely because of what Julian Sanchez has labeled <a href="http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/04/07/epistemic-closure-technology-and-the-end-of-distance/">epistemic closure</a>.

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/21/newsweek-niall-ferguson-and-the-conservative-ec/189481">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/21/newsweek-niall-ferguson-and-the-conservative-ec/189481</a>

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Since 1993, Regnery Publishing has been a division of Eagle Publishing, which also owns the weekly magazine Human Events.

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The Weekly Standard is an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservative" title="Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect">neoconservative</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-0">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-1">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-2">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-3">[4]</a> opinion magazine<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-4">[5]</a> published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation" title="News Corporation">News Corporation</a>, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol" title="William Kristol" class="mw-redirect">William Kristol</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Barnes_%28journalist%29" title="Fred Barnes (journalist)">Fred Barnes</a>, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">neoconservatism</a>" and as "the neo-con bible".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-5">[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-6">[7]</a>.

Many of the magazine's articles are written by members of conservative think tanks located in Washington, D.C.: the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_and_Public_Policy_Center" title="Ethics and Public Policy Center">Ethics and Public Policy Center</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for Defense of Democracies">Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute">Hudson Institute</a>. Some notable individuals that have written for the magazine include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams" title="Elliott Abrams">Elliott Abrams</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Berkowitz" title="Peter Berkowitz">Peter Berkowitz</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Bolton" title="John R. Bolton">John R. Bolton</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Bork" title="Ellen Bork">Ellen Bork</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gillespie" title="Ed Gillespie">Ed Gillespie</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kimball" title="Roger Kimball">Roger Kimball</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mansfield" title="Harvey Mansfield">Harvey Mansfield</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Queenan" title="Joe Queenan">Joe Queenan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_J.Smith" title="Wesley J. Smith">Wesley J. Smith</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo" title="John Yoo">John Yoo</a>. The magazine's website blog, titled the "Daily Standard", is edited by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCormack" title="John McCormack">John McCormack</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Halper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Halper (page does not exist)">Daniel Halper</a> and produces daily articles and commentary.

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Although the publication had, as of 2006, never been profitable and reputedly "los[t] more than a million dollars a year", News Corporation head <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> had previously dismissed the idea of selling it.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-7">[8]</a> In June, 2009, a report circulated that a sale of the publication to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz" title="Philip Anschutz">Philip Anschutz</a> was imminent, with Murdoch's position being that, having purchased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> in 2007, his interest in the smaller publication had been less forceful.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-8">[9]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-9">[10]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner" class="mw-redirect">Washington Examiner</a> reports that the Examiner's parent company, the Anschutz-owned Clarity Media Group, has since purchased the Standard.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-10">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-11">[12]</a> Since the sale to the Clarity Media Group, the Standard has increased its paid circulation by 39 percent between its June 2009 and June 2010 BPA statements.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_note-12">[13]</a>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol" title="William Kristol" class="mw-redirect">William Kristol</a>, Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Barnes_%28journalist%29" title="Fred Barnes (journalist)">Fred Barnes</a>, Executive Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Starr_%28editor%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Starr (editor) (page does not exist)">Richard Starr</a>, Deputy Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Anderson" title="Claudia Anderson">Claudia Anderson</a>, Managing Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Caldwell" title="Christopher Caldwell">Christopher Caldwell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ferguson%28journalist%29" title="Andrew Ferguson (journalist)">Andrew Ferguson</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorino_Matus" title="Victorino Matus">Victorino Matus</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smith%28journalist%29" title="Lee Smith (journalist)">Lee Smith</a>, Senior Editors</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Terzian" title="Philip Terzian">Philip Terzian</a>, Literary Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F.Hayes" title="Stephen F. Hayes">Stephen F. Hayes</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Labash" title="Matt Labash">Matt Labash</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_V.Last" title="Jonathan V. Last">Jonathan V. Last</a>, Senior Writers</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti" title="Matthew Continetti">Matthew Continetti</a>, Opinion Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jay_Cost&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jay Cost (page does not exist)">Jay Cost</a>, Staff Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCormack" title="John McCormack">John McCormack</a>, Online Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Halper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Halper (page does not exist)">Daniel Halper</a>, Deputy Online Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kari_Barbic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kari Barbic (page does not exist)">Kari Barbic</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emily_Schultheis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emily Schultheis (page does not exist)">Emily Schultheis</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kelly_Jane_Torrance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kelly Jane Torrance (page does not exist)">Kelly Jane Torrance</a>, Assistant Editors</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Warren" title="Michael Warren">Michael Warren</a>, Editorial Assistant</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip_Chalk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Chalk (page does not exist)">Philip Chalk</a>, Design Director</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Kyttle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Kyttle (page does not exist)">Barbara Kyttle</a>, Design Assistant</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carolyn_Wimmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carolyn Wimmer (page does not exist)">Carolyn Wimmer</a>, Executive Assistant</li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bottum" title="Joseph Bottum" class="mw-redirect">Joseph Bottum</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson" title="Tucker Carlson">Tucker Carlson</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noemie_Emery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Noemie Emery (page does not exist)">Noemie Emery</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Epstein_%28writer%29" title="Joseph Epstein (writer)">Joseph Epstein</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum" title="David Frum">David Frum</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelernter" title="David Gelernter">David Gelernter</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuel_Marc_Gerecht" title="Reuel Marc Gerecht">Reuel Marc Gerecht</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Goldfarb" title="Michael Goldfarb">Michael Goldfarb</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Kagan" title="Frederick W. Kagan" class="mw-redirect">Frederick W. Kagan</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan" title="Robert Kagan">Robert Kagan</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer" title="Charles Krauthammer">Charles Krauthammer</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Lindberg" title="Tod Lindberg">Tod Lindberg</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Messenger" title="Robert Messenger" class="mw-redirect">Robert Messenger</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.J._O%27Rourke" title="P.J. O'Rourke" class="mw-redirect">P.J. O'Rourke</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podhoretz" title="John Podhoretz">John Podhoretz</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Stelzer" title="Irwin Stelzer">Irwin Stelzer</a></li>

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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Eastland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terry Eastland (page does not exist)">Terry Eastland</a>, Publisher</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_H.B._Swezey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicholas H.B. Swezey (page does not exist)">Nicholas H.B. Swezey</a>, Advertising Director</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catherine_Lowe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Catherine Lowe (page does not exist)">Catherine Lowe</a>, Marketing Director</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Trocchia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Trocchia (page does not exist)">Richard Trocchia</a>, Fulfillment Manager</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=T._Barry_Davis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="T. Barry Davis (page does not exist)">T. Barry Davis</a>, Senior Advertising Manager</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kathy_Schaffhauser&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathy Schaffhauser (page does not exist)">Kathy Schaffhauser</a>, Finance Director</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taybor_Cook&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Taybor Cook (page does not exist)">Taybor Cook</a>, Office Manager</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Kaumeier&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Kaumeier (page does not exist)">Andrew Kaumeier</a>, Staff Assistant</li>

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The Weekly Standard lists testimonials from various sources on its website:

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<li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/advertising/press.php" class="external text" rel="nofollow">WeeklyStandard.com</a> – "Press"</li>

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-0">^</a> McConnell, Scott. "<a href="http://www.amconmag.com/article/2005/nov/21/00018/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Weekly Standard's War</a>". November 21, 2005. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Conservative" title="The American Conservative">The American Conservative</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-1">^</a> Smith, Ben. "<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/Weekly_Standard_may_have_been_shooter_target.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Weekly Standard may have been shooter target</a>" June 11, 2009. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico_%28newspaper%29" title="Politico (newspaper)">Politico</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-2">^</a> Magolick, David. "<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/21/the-return-of-the-neocons.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Return of the Neocons</a>" January 22, 2010. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-3">^</a> Carr, David. "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040624110826/http://www.iht.com/articles/89505.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">When this weekly speaks, White House listens</a>" March 12, 2003. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-4">^</a> "Ten years ago, The Weekly Standard debuted, a conservative journal of opinion [f]rom Washington, D.C., edited by William Kristol". October 24, 2005. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a>: "The Week".</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-5">^</a> Max Boot. "<a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002840" class="external text" rel="nofollow">What the Heck Is a ‘Neocon’?</a>". December 30, 2002, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect">Wall Street Journal</a>: "the Weekly Standard, ... is known as a redoubt of ‘neoconservatism’".</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-6">^</a> Thoma, Mark. "<a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5037/is_200509/ai_n18255143/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Current Debacle in Iraq is ...</a>", (quoting Rachman, Gideon. "The neo-cons’ route to disaster". January 15, 2007. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FT.com" title="FT.com" class="mw-redirect">FT.com</a>: "Neo-Con Bible".) January 15, 2007. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-7">^</a> Cassidy, John. "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact1?printable=true" class="external text" rel="nofollow">'Murdoch's Game'</a>". October 16, 2006. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-8">^</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carr" title="David Carr">Carr, David</a>. "<a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/will-the-standard-pass-from-murdoch-to-anschutz/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Will The Standard Pass From Murdoch to Anschutz?</a>", (citing Flint, Joe. "<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/06/news-corp-in-talks-to-sell-weekly-standard-to-anschutz.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">... talks to unload Weekly Standard to Anschutz</a>". June 9, 2009. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a>: "Company Town".) June 10, 2009. The New York Times: "Media Decoder". Retrieved 6/15/09.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-9">^</a> Worden, Nat. "<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124465301083402649.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">News Corp. Close to Selling Weekly Standard</a>". June 11, 2009. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect">Wall Street Journal</a>. Retrieved 6/15/09.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-10">^</a> "<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Weekly-Standard-sold-to-Washington-Examiner-parent-company-48275582.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Weekly Standard sold to Washington Examiner parent company</a>". June 17, 2009. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner" class="mw-redirect">Washington Examiner</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-11">^</a> Corcoran, Michael. <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3944" class="external text" rel="nofollow">The Weekly Standard’s War: Murdoch sells ...</a>" September, 2009. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting" title="Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting">Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard#cite_ref-12">^</a> Mickey, Bill. "<a href="http://www.audiencedevelopment.com/2010/weekly+standard+boosts+its+circ" class="external autonumber" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>". October 6, 2010. "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Audience_Development&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Audience Development (page does not exist)">Audience Development</a>".</li>

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<h2>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Weekly_Standard&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>] External links</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/" class="external text" rel="nofollow">Official website</a></li>

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