The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
From Sydney Schanberg
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.
This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives