Charlie Hebdo: Leftist Rag: In Life Despised: In Death Embraced: Out With a Bang and Blaze of Glory
Who supported them in life? Who were their 50,000 subscribers? If everyone so loved the freedom it represented, why didn't they support it? Ah, they went out with a bang, in a blaze of glory
Who supported them in life? Who were their 50,000 subscribers? If everyone so loved the freedom it represented, why didn't they support it? Ah, they went out with a bang, in a blaze of glory
Charlie Hebdo grew out of a weekly called Hara Kiri Hebdo founded in 1969 by a group of left-leaning journalists. The newspaper in its current form dates to 1992, when several journalists pooled their money and set up a foundation to run the publication. According to a 2008 story in Le Monde, the foundation was called “Kalashnikov Editions”—by grotesque coincidence, the name of the rifle used in the terror attack.
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Like most newspapers in the 21st century, Charlie Hebdo seemed to consider lack of money as the biggest threat to its existence. According to French press reports, the newspaper had as many as 140,000 regular readers a decade ago, but readership had declined to about 50,000 by last year. Last November, the newspaper made a public appeal for donations, saying it was barely staying afloat.
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Like most newspapers in the 21st century, Charlie Hebdo seemed to consider lack of money as the biggest threat to its existence. According to French press reports, the newspaper had as many as 140,000 regular readers a decade ago, but readership had declined to about 50,000 by last year. Last November, the newspaper made a public appeal for donations, saying it was barely staying afloat.
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