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maxwell · 3640 days ago · link · · parent · post: Facebook Prince Purges The New Republic: Inside the Destruction of a 100-Year-Old Magazine
This excerpt from the statement issued by the former writers and editors of TNR really struck me: You see writing referred to as 'content' constantly nowadays. It makes it sound so hollow, so soulless. This whole thing is tragic.The New Republic cannot be merely a “brand.” It has never been and cannot be a “media company” that markets “content.” Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause. It has lasted through numerous transformations of the “media landscape”—transformations that, far from rendering its work obsolete, have made that work ever more valuable.