Another billionaire focused on killing political journalism:

The slate of talented writers and editors that have fled this once heralded publication is heartbreaking for Texas journalism. @OliviaMesser with a comprehension look at what’s going down at @TexasMonthly, peppered with some history https://t.co/HtQBymJnag

— Alexa Garcia-Ditta (@agarciaditta) February 6, 2018

“…In February of last year, the Columbia Journalism Review reported that newly minted 33-year-old Editor in Chief Tim Taliaferro—freshly picked by [Paul] Hobby from an editorship at a university alumni magazine--planned to take the publication, known all over the state as a force in political reporting, in a “lifestyle” direction.

He told CJR reporter Lyz Lenz,”Texans don’t care about politics.” He included specific examples of stories he was not interested in covering, including those on transgender bathrooms. Readers all over the state were dismayed by Taliaferro’s remark, including former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who commented: “And another one bites the dust.”