This article from a couple days ago offer some additional background and different (opinionated) perspective: Facebook Prince Purges The New Republic: Inside

This article from a couple days ago offer some additional background and different (opinionated) perspective: Facebook Prince Purges The New Republic: Inside the Destruction of a 100-Year-Old Magazine Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes and his lieutenant from Yahoo gut one of journalism's great publications, setting off waves of resignations and tears... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/05/the-new-republic-implodes.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/05/the-new-rep... Discussion of that article (under the more pedestrian title "Chris Hughes Purges The New Republic") took place here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705410