The journalism world is up in arms today that Chris Hughes the Facebook mogul who bought The New Republic magazine had the temerity to fire editor Franklin Foer and literary editor Leon Wieseltier, beheadings that have led to the resignation of twenty-some editors and writers at the magazine. Here’s Lloyd Grove at the Daily Beast saying a great magazine is being demolished. Here’s Jonathan Chait, saying that Hughes is a nitwit who is undermining “an essential foundation of American progressive thought.” Gosh!