Resumen de The product

John B. Judis

• Judis reveals Hughes' plans turn The New Republic into just another media business, after a century as a public trust. On Thursday, Dec 4, Frank Foer resigned as editor of The New Republic, having learned from a gossip site that the magazine's owner, former Facebook executive Chris Hughes, had already hired someone to replace him. Leon Wieseltier, who was widely known to be on the chopping block, and whose renowned back-of-the-book Hughes had already threatened, followed suit. The next morning, 15 top editors, including him, and 13 contributing editors, resigned. Most of his colleagues quit out of solidarity with Foer, whom they believed had been rudely forced out without good reason. He shared their rage at the way Hughes had dealt with Foer. But he had stayed through other firings--most recently that of his friend Richard Just, who had recruited Hughes to buy the magazine three years ago