Who founded the conservative magazine National Review & helped revive conservative ideas in the US?

It’s not clear what occasioned the email, but National Review takes an annual cruise to Alaska that ran from July 29 to August 5 in 2007. The message to Palin is dated August 1.

Balash describes the brand-name conservative magazine in basic terms and runs through a list of staff bios. One identifies Jessica Gavora, the wife of columnist Jonah Goldberg, as being from “the Gavora family in Fairbanks.”

We don’t know how Palin responded to the email, and it’s possible the whole thing was the work of an exceptionally fastidious staffer. But it’s also a reminder that four years ago, Palin had yet to step into the conservative media universe she now dominates. From the email:

National Review is a conservative magazine founded in 1955 by William F. Buckley, Jr. Published bi-weekly, it is a conservative opinion magazine offering views and analysis on the world’s current events. National Review Online is, essentially, a separate publication available for free on the Web. As with most partisan opinion magazines, it carries little corporate advertising and does not tum a profit. Donations, black-tie fundraisers, and periodic cruises with the writers and editors make up the difference.

The last time National Review came to Juneau was 10 years ago. Tony Knowles was the govemor, and he “crashed” the reception down at the Baranof Hotel.

Jack Fowler: the publisher of the magazine. There is very little to find on him, although he was on the cruise to Juneau 10 years ago.

Rich Lowry; editor of National Review Magazine. He is known as one of the youngest and most influential conservative commentators and in the country. His first book, Legacy, Paying the Price for the Clinton Years was published in 2003 and is a critical account of President Bill Clinton, his character, and his tenure in office. He regularly appears on the Fox News Channel.

And then there’s this description of Dick Morris:

Morris first worked with Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1978 during Bill’s successful run for governor of Arkansas. He continued to work with the Clintons in Arkansas for the next 15 years but was not a part of the 1992 campaign for president. Following the 1994 elections, Morris was brought in to contend with the Republicans swept in that year. He led Clinton to co-opt popular Republican initiatives and force Republicans to justify their unpopular decisions leading to the 1995 government shutdown. This was better known as the “triangulation” strategy. Key to this effort was massive early TV advertising in swing states paid for by soft money raised through the Democratic National Committee.

From SourceWatch

The National Review based in New York City and founded by William F. Buckley, Jr., considered one of the godfathers of American conservatism, is one of the oldest and most influential conservative magazines in the United States. It regularly publishes the work of some of the nation's leading conservatives. National Review Online provides some of the articles from the print publication online as well as original material. In the early 1990s they had, with the Heritage Foundation, a joint venture called 'Town Hall'. This BBS became a forum on Compuserve in 1994 and in June 1995 the web site 'townhall.com' went live. Townhall.com became a project of the Heritage Foundation until it was purchased in 2006 by Salem Communications Corporation. The current director of the National Review is Jeff Sandefer, President of the Texas-based energy investment firm Sandefer Capital.

Quoting industry reps & targeting activists

Editorials featured in the National Review are reliably right wing, corporate and industry friendly with frequent use of excessive rhetoric. Editorials also source and reference industry lobbies such as Center for Consumer Freedom. [1] See also Wesley J. Smith, sections 2 & 3.

Staff

Contributors

• Byron York
• Warren Bell
• Wesley J. Smith

Contact

National Review 215 Lexington Ave., Floor 4 New York, NY 10016 Phone: 212-679-7330

Website: http://www.nationalreview.com

Articles & sources

Related SourceWatch articles

References

1. ↑ Kathryn Jean Lopez Jesus Isn't a Pig, National Review, Sept 2005

National Review is a semi-monthly conservative news outlet that issues opinion pieces on current political topics. National Review also refers to the magazine's online outlet, National Review Online, which features similar reporting along with blog posts on the media, the environment, education and the judiciary, among other topics. The journal was founded as a weekly magazine of conservative opinion in 1955 by William F. Buckley Jr.

History

National Review was founded in 1955 by conservative journalist William F. Buckley Jr. In the journal's initial issue, Buckley wrote that a conservative weekly opinion magazine was needed because "literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation." He saw the journal's mission as a counterpoint to such experimentation: "It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."[1]

As an exclusively print journal, National Review maintained a "reputation as the cradle for conservative intellectuals and home for erudite and well-mannered debate," according to The New York Times.[2] The paper further noted that, although National Review was openly conservative, it did not act as a "megaphone for Republican Party orthodoxy." Rather, its editorial stance largely followed that of Buckley, who was known for the "surprise twists in his views."[2]

As a print journal, National Review was a consistently conservative voice in the national political landscape. The conservative blog Town Hall praised the journal as having "writers and thinkers uniquely unafraid to follow in Buckley's giant footsteps and tell it like it is."[3]

In early 2015, National Review officially became a nonprofit organization. Commenting to Politico, editor Rich Lowry said: "Publishing a serious opinion magazine has never been a profitable business, and never will be."[4]

Current online work for National Review Online is centered on breaking Washington, D.C., based news and six major blogs—"The Corner," "The Campaign Spot," "Bench Memos," "Phi Beta Cons," "Postmodern Conservative" and "Human Exceptionalism."[5] Of these, "The Corner" is the longest-running and most widely read. It is the site's featured blog with the tagline "The One and Only."[6] In 2009, Politico noted that National Review "stands out as the only 20th century conservative institution—a 54-year-old magazine—that has made such a leap into the 21st."[7]

Readership

The following table details the annual circulation of National Review from 2011 to 2014, according to the Pew Research Center:[8]

For National Review Online, the organization says it receives 4.5 million unique visitors per month and 25 million page views per month.[9]

Presidential endorsements

2016 presidential endorsement

✓ National Review endorsed Ted Cruz for the Republican primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[10]

Noteworthy events

John Doe investigations

Two John Doe investigations, beginning in 2010 and ending in 2015, were launched by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm (D) into the activities of staff and associates of Gov. Scott Walker (R).[11] National Review writer David A. French covered the John Doe investigations, writing a series of articles exploring the players and events surrounding the investigations. In April 2015, he wrote his first piece entitled "Wisconsin’s Shame: 'I Thought It Was a Home Invasion,'" which, coupled with the fact Walker launched a presidential bid, catapulted the story onto the national media stage. By interviewing the targets of the raids and describing their version of events in detail, French's article humanized a story that had previously played out in the media as a politically-fueled campaign finance skirmish. As a result, many national conservative media outlets, including Fox News and TheBlaze, picked up the story.[12]

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See also

External links

1. ↑ National Review, "Our Mission Statement," November 19, 1955
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The New York Times, "At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition," November 17, 2008
3. ↑ Town Hall, "The Self-Immolation of National Review," May 23, 2015
4. ↑ Politico, "National Review goes nonprofit," March 31, 2015
5. ↑ National Review, "National Review Online," accessed August 14, 2015
6. ↑ National Review, "The Corner," accessed August 14, 2015
7. ↑ Politico, "Fight's on to be right's TPM, HuffPo," December 12, 2009
8. ↑ Pew Research Center, "News Magazines: Fact Sheet," April 29, 2015
9. ↑ National Review, "National Review & National Review Online," accessed August 13, 2015
10. ↑ National Review, "Ted Cruz for President," March 11, 2016
11. ↑ United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Milwaukee Division, "Eric O’Keefe, and Wisconsin Club for Growth, Inc.," accessed February 23, 2015
12. ↑ National Review, "Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘I Thought It Was a Home Invasion,'" April 20, 2015