 Like the more recent 2011 discharge of Debra Rubin, some — including Larry Cohler-Esses — believe the Silow-Carroll departure reveals the larger tension between those who believe that the priority of the Jewish press is to report the news and those who believe it involves the role of supporter or "cheerleader" for certain organizations and political positions.Cohler-Esses states in a 2004 interview that AIPAC tried to get him fired, in addition to the pressure they leveled on "WJW" to fire Silow-Carroll.In April 1999, the paper's "family ownership" came to an end when "WJW" was purchased by Better Built Group, a newly formed affiliate of Ryan Phillips' NewsCo., the parent company of Alexandria-based Journal Newspapers.