MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Weekly Standard didn’t go along, and now its future is in danger. Other conservative magazines, websites and news empires have thrived since President Trump took office by cheering him on or, at least, playing down his faults. But in the spring of 2017, The Weekly Standard let the world know that it was following its own course, come what may. The magazine’s billionaire owner, Philip F. Anschutz, bought into the plan — or so it seemed — and its editor in chief, Stephen F. Hayes, set out to increase the size of the staff by a third. He also banned alt-right-style, partisan clickbait stories and encouraged investigative and feature reporting that often put the magazine on the wrong side of Mr. Trump and his allies. That experiment may have now run its course. And the outcome has called into question whether the conservative media world can abide journalism that questions the new orthodoxy.”
–Jim Rutenberg, “A Conservative Magazine May Pay a Price for Being Unfriendly to Trump,” The New York Times online, December 5, 2018