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Washington Blade and Several Other Gay Newspapers Go Out of Business
The New York Times ^ | 11/16/2009 | Richard Perez-Pena

Posted on 11/16/2009 11:21:49 AM PST by GoldStandard

Gay newspapers in several U.S. cities, including the Washington Blade, shut down on Monday, as the company that owned them, Window Media, abruptly went out of business. Window Media had been in serious financial trouble, but employees said they had expected a reorganization or sale, not a liquidation.

“We found out when two of the corporate officers were waiting for us when we got to work this morning,” said Kevin Naff, editor of the Blade, a 40-year-old paper that was one of the most important publications written for a gay audience. “It’s not a complete surprise. The abruptness of it was what was surprising.”

The paper’s roughly 20 employees “are determined to come back and make of a go of it as an independent entity,” he said. “Our first meeting is tomorrow.”

Employees at Southern Voice, an Atlanta-based gay paper owned by Window Media, found their offices locked on Monday, and a note posted on the door saying that the company had ceased operation. It told the workers to return Wednesday with boxes to collect their belongings.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dinosaurmedia; epicfail; homosexualagenda; ivorytower; lavendermafia; liberalmedia; lol; napl; theend; washingtonblade; yellowjournalism
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To: ConservativeWarrior
There are multiple magazines for chess enthusiasts alone!

But the Chess Magazines are shooting for a specialized international audience; rather than a limited city audience. If the Chess magazine were confined to a local market segment - it too would be doomed. That's the difference.

Hmmmm, I wonder how the internet would affect a magazine like that? My wife and I contribute to FR because we would rather give our newspaper money to Jim, than to a Liberal rag.

41 posted on 11/16/2009 12:24:37 PM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

42 posted on 11/16/2009 12:48:52 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

No kidding.


43 posted on 11/16/2009 12:51:46 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: GoldStandard

BYE !!!


44 posted on 11/16/2009 12:51:49 PM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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To: a fool in paradise
Oh, mary, where is all this fabulousness going to end up?


45 posted on 11/16/2009 12:56:06 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: GoldStandard

Out of print, out of business...

HA-A-A-A-TED I-I-I-T!!!


46 posted on 11/16/2009 12:58:47 PM PST by ScottinVA (The arrogance of this Congress is staggering. November 2010 can't get here quickly enough.)
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To: GoldStandard

It sucks, but they’ll swallow their fate.


47 posted on 11/16/2009 1:00:34 PM PST by ScottinVA (The arrogance of this Congress is staggering. November 2010 can't get here quickly enough.)
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To: a fool in paradise

IN OTHER NEWS: Sales of Barbra Streisand albums have taken an unexpected dive.


48 posted on 11/16/2009 1:01:46 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!
The phrase that pays at that bar:


49 posted on 11/16/2009 1:03:01 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: Hodar
Hmmmm, I wonder how the internet would affect a magazine like that? My wife and I contribute to FR because we would rather give our newspaper money to Jim, than to a Liberal rag.

You have a point there with regards to papers catering to sexual fetishes. Porn's free on the internetz.

50 posted on 11/16/2009 1:04:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

You’re probably right. Lord knows there were very, very few Mormons reading these papers. Must have been a boycott organized at the top level of the LDS.


51 posted on 11/16/2009 1:08:49 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: a fool in paradise

There’s porn on the internet?


52 posted on 11/16/2009 1:39:00 PM PST by BJClinton (http://www.williamsfortexas.com/)
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To: GoldStandard

Free market at work.


53 posted on 11/16/2009 1:41:18 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: dangus

It’s all about market penetration in the end.


54 posted on 11/16/2009 2:05:14 PM PST by dangerdoc
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To: GoldStandard

“they had expected a reorganization or sale, not a liquidation. “

I thought they lived for liquidation?


55 posted on 11/16/2009 2:20:39 PM PST by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The same way the Ditsy Chix had sold out concerts that played to empty stadiums.
Somebody bulk bought the stuff.


56 posted on 11/16/2009 2:24:06 PM PST by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: stbdside

i bet they cwied


57 posted on 11/16/2009 2:24:46 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (=^..^= =^..^= =^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: horsewhisper

Hey, horsewhisper.
You still there?
I said: The Ditsy Chix had sold out concerts that were played to empty stadiums, pass it on!
Oh, and several gay oriented papers just went belly up.
After loyal bulk buying readership vanished.
(Air America redux..)


58 posted on 11/16/2009 2:47:01 PM PST by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: GoldStandard

Some conservative publications aren’t doing so well themselves. To celebrate this shutdown, consider subscribing to a pro-family publication or ordering material from or donating to a worthy group.


59 posted on 11/16/2009 3:24:07 PM PST by Dumb_Ox (http://twitter.com/kevinjjones)
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To: Vision; All
The fact that homosexuals want their own paper, olympics, rodeo, etc is proof this is a lifestyle choice.
 

Several months ago I was all set to embark upon the three-hour drive necessary to go to a rodeo in my State, and I was quite excited because I look forward to it all year.  The day before the event I checked the schedule again and noticed that there had been an 'update'....on the date I was planning to attend, it was now the date for their 'pink rodeo', as they described it.

Naturally, I went on a different day.  I wonder, however, how many patrons didn't necessarily know that a 'pink rodeo' means a 'queer rodeo' and were horrified at the events and the other patrons of that day?  People who didn't check the schedule carefully or people who didn't understand the terminology and thought that perhaps a 'pink rodeo' was a kids' rodeo for young girls would have been in for quite a shock, I would imagine.

Forcing themselves upon the mainstream culture in this rather underhanded way is not going to gain them a greater level of tolerance from the normal folks.

60 posted on 11/16/2009 3:31:53 PM PST by Stoat (Sarah Palin 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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