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The Weekly Standard an influential conservative magazine founded in 1995, published its last issue Monday, ending its activities after consistently losing revenue for years.

The magazine announced Friday its closure, a news item celebrated by President Trump and some reputable Republicans, while other GOP writers were crying mourning for the press.

The magazine was founded by reporters Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes and John Podhoretz, with funding from conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch financed Standard for 14 years before selling it in 2009 to billionaire Philip Anschutz. The Anschutz Clarity Media Group also owns the conservative magazine The Washington Examiner .

Since buying a million dollars, the magazine has experienced a decline in readership and turnover. The Daily Beast reports that the magazine loses "between 2 and 4 million dollars a year".

"The Weekly Standard has been hampered by many of the challenges faced by countless other magazines and newspapers across the country," said Ryan McKibben, President and Chief Executive Officer. from Clarity, based in Denver. Media, in a press release Friday, citing "a double-digit decline in the subscriber base every year except one since 2013".

"We worked hard to publish a quality magazine and had a lot of fun," wrote former editor Bill Kristol on Twitter . "And we still have a lot to do, ahead!"

The status of Standard as an influential neoconservative publication with true cultural critics was at its peak during the administration of George W. Bush, when the magazine welcomed the "I". invasion of Iraq by the United States. Some have referred to the standard as a flight magazine of the Air Force One administration.

But under the Trump administration, some conservative and republican readers turned away from the Weekly Standard, in reaction to his dislike of the president. The norm is distinguished from most other conservative publications, notably Fox News, Sinclair, Breitbart and the Washington Examiner writing about the president with skepticism and sometimes outright objection. For example, the magazine adopted the #NeverTrump Republican movement.

"The general opinion of … a large part of the editorial staff has declared itself unfit to perform its duties, largely because of its behavior and atrocious insults you know, the heroism of war from John McCain and various other things, "said Sunday to NPR one of the co-founders and editor of the Standard, John Podhoretz.

Podhoretz stated that the subscriber list of Standard could be incorporated into a magazine to be launched shortly and connected to Washington Examiner . "So, in essence, he is cannibalized, literally," he said.

On Saturday, President Trump celebrated the magazine on Twitter by calling him "pathetic and dishonest" and naming his former editor, Bill Kristol. Kristol, who published Standard for over 20 years, responded to the president with a personal tweet.

Other people rejoicing at the end of Standard included the far right and the Loyal loyalist Trump's Steve King of Iowa, whose magazine has often criticized racist and white nationalist rhetoric. King tweeted Sunday the president "perfectly right of the deserved disappearance of The Weekly Standard".

Last month, the magazine reported that King, re-elected in mid-November, made a racist comment comparing immigrants.

King claimed that the magazine was lying and called them "at the bottom of the lying journalistic gutter". Then the Republican dared on Standard to "release the complete cassette" – the magazine did.

In response to King & # 39; s Sunday's tweet, Podhoretz described this politician as "a disgusting liar and insult for American public life".

"The stench of your lies and your ideas pollutes your district, your state, your party and the United States," he writes in a tweet .

Other people from all walks of life pointed out that closing the magazine to one another meant a loss of the intellectual conservative writing field .

"That's what happens when business drones grab an opinion magazine, try to drag it to their level, then get angry. and become irritated when magazine people try to maintain a certain sense of intellectual norms, "commented a conservative. and the former publisher Standard David Brooks.

Franklin Foer, writer at The Atlantic, writes that he enjoyed the magazine for many years with "a whirlwind of mixed feelings". Foer was the former editor of the liberal opinion magazine The New Republic .

"The magazine itself combined a serious intellectual seriousness with the gritty mentality of a political agent," wrote Foer. "His wit was kind, even if it was not always the case … [co-founder] Kristol positions his magazine as the ideological vanguard of American conservatism, without ever fully lending allegiance to the movement. "