Under the editorship of former Guardian bigwig Alan Rusbridger, Prospect magazine has gone from an interesting and even occasionally balanced intellectual journal to an eyeball-crushingly dull and worthy parish newsletter for the liberal establishment. Sad times…
Guido hears from multiple newsroom sources – who have revealed their internal correspondence – that the magazine has hit tough times, with Rusbridger recently issuing an edict that its external commissions must be pared back. “We’ve gone from commissioning whatever we like to a max of a few bits a week“, said one disgruntled scribbler. Repeated, rehashed attacks on the Murdoch media have failed to garner the magazine the revival it had sought…
“We’re becoming super parochial”, said another. The ‘Prospect’ of job losses abounds…
