When Backpage.com stopped buying MANY MANY MANY ads in Village Voice media publications (because they were publicly busted in facilitating human trafficking, a charge numerous VVM publications denied for years), the print editions folded (last year).
Can’t give away an alt-left-weekly entertainment rag if no one is buying the sex ads that underwrote such print runs.
2017
https://nypost.com/2017/07/11/backpage-hit-with-new-evidence-it-controls-sex-trafficking-ads/
2012
https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/responding-to-village-voice-on-sex-trafficking/