Heard on the web [Kinsley talks Buckley]:
Charlottesville, Va.: William Buckley subsidized National Review with remnants of his father's Mexican oil money -- though what will happen to it now is anybody's guess. William Kristol's Weekly Standard is froth and bubbles on the fringe of cascading green ocean waves of Murdoch money (it is said to lose $1 million a year). Was the failure of Slate's subscription service because William Gates concluded that "a penny for your thoughts" was just about what he'd pay? What do you think of subsidized opinion-mongering?
I have no way of verifying these comments, so take them with a grain of salt. However, if they are true, it paints an interesting frame around those who are so terribly, terribly upset by Soros providing some money (seed money?) to various groups.
Why? Well, save the laudatory notes being written about how N-Review has changed the course of the Nation. They may prove useful ...
