David Frum Named Senior Editor at The Atlantic

[struggle4progress]

Source: The Atlantic

Mar 19 2014, 3:01 PM ET

... David Frum is joining The Atlantic as a senior editor beginning March 31, James Bennet, editor in chief of The Atlantic, announced today ... Frum has worked on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Forbes magazine, and for the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute ... Frum served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002; he was a senior foreign policy advisor on the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign from 2007 to 2008 ... Frum’s first book, Dead Right, was described by William F. Buckley as “the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation” ... [\i]

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2014/03/david-frum-named-senior-editor-at-the-atlantic/284510/

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Evidence that The Atlantic continues moving to the right after its sale a few years back

[Sognefjord]

1. People still read that?

[PSPS]

2. Yes, I do. It's a great magazine. This news is disturbing, though.

[struggle4progress]

3. Some people still link to it here, even though it's become a rightwing rag

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It has some good writers- Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Fallows

http://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/
http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows/

[Redfairen]

11. Coates is fantastic even if a lot of their other writers are straight-up morons. *

[Blue_Tires]

14. +1

[SoapBox]

4. Easy to see by this guy's history...

That the is going even more to the Right Wing Rag side.

[dawn frenzy adams]

5. It's amazing!

This is how lying and failure is rewarded, if you you are a right-winger. You are given the opportunity to lie and failed again, and again, and again. David Frum deserves no respect for his Axis of Evil speech. Whether you read the Atlantic or not, you should let the Atlantic know that hiring this man is what's wrong with journalism.

[Tom Ripley]

13. +1000

[xxqqqzme]

6. That is a shame.

I subscribed to The Atlantic 8-10 years ago. It was a good magazine. Too bad it is on a downhill slide.

[struggle4progress]

7. It was once a great magazine

[underpants]

9. "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2010/03/david-frum-on-gop-now-we-work-for-fox/

[fbc]

10. Frum is the only conservative I have some respect for.

at least he can admit when he was wrong:

http://www.frumforum.com/were-our-enemies-right/

I don't agree with him, but he's not as batshit crazy as most conservatives and I get the feeling the amount of crazy in the republican party scares him as much as it scares us.

[Orsino]

12. He's willing to admit that some other people were wrong...

...long ago enough that it's too late to do anything about it, and he does it withot suggesting policy change.