and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 08/31/2018 2:43:05 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Village Voice, a New York journalism staple and the country's first alternative newspaper, announced Friday it will no longer continue to publish stories after more than 60 years.
"This is a sad day for The Village Voice and for millions of readers. The Voice has been a key element of New York City journalism and is read around the world," said the Voice's owner, Peter Barbey, in a statement. "As the first modern alternative newspaper, it literally defined a new genre of publishing."
"Although the Voice will not continue publishing, we are dedicated to ensuring that its legacy will endure to inspire more generations of readers and writers to give even more speed to those same goals," Barbey added. "We have begun working to ensure that the enormous print archive of The Village Voice is made digitally accessible.
The Village Voice, co-founded by legendary novelist Norman Mailer, was launched in 1955.
The paper captured journalism's top honors, including three Pulitzer Prizes, a National Press Association Award and Polk Award.
The Voice's demise underscores the challenges for the local newspaper industry as more convenient and inexpensive or free digital options are readily available for consumers on their phones and computers.
In July, a Pew Research Center analysis found that a majority of the country's largest newspapers in the United States have laid off employees since January 2017. Pew also found that 36 of the 110 daily newspapers in its analysis experienced layoffs between January 2017 and April.
"Of the 110 daily newspapers in the analysis, 40 — or 36 percent — were found to have gone through publicly reported layoffs during the 16-month study period, with at least 12 experiencing more than one round of layoffs," reads the Pew study.
"It is possible that even more occurred but remained under the radar of the search methods employed in this analysis," it adds.
Why bother? Almost all the other newspapers publish nonsense already.
It will be bought up and the name used just like Newsweek.
I wonder how Leftists account for this in their pinheads.
This is a natural consequence of left wing consistently fake news.
MAGA! MAGA! MAGA!
Sad day?
Sounds like a ‘happy day’ to me.
Agree- have a good holiday.
Now if only the Washington Shaft (Post) would fold.
Was VV hysterically anti-Trump?
Thank you for relenting in imposing your definition of what’s important on your fellow FReepers.
“This may have to do with the Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA). ‘Personal’ sex ads were banned. They may have been a big part of their revenue. “
Maybe so. You won’t get much business in that ‘community’ if you require everyone to be over 18 years old.
Do you remember those ads that went somthing like “Saw you on the R train, our eyes met, I said hello and you laughed...”
Those things made me feel so sad but I always read all of them.
YUP!!
That was a classic...but the NY GOP never used it to their advantage.
Oh well...it is after all, the useless and cowardly NY GOP.
Wait - the Communist Party pulled their support of the Village Voice?
>>>This is a sad day for The Village Voice and for millions of readers<<<
If they really had “millions” of readers, why would be they be going out of Business?
They’re coming for you, lib rags. Those aren’t shadows chasing you ...
Apparently not....
Well, the folk scene's dead, but he's holding out in the Village
He's been writing songs, speaking out against wealth and privilege
He says, I don't believe in money, but a man could make him a killin' '
Cause some of that stuff don't sound much different than Dylan
I hear down there it's changed, you see
Well, they're not as backward as they used to be
He's gone country, look at them boots .....
I used to get both rags from 1970-’74 to find out concert dates. That was all they were good for.. Same with the NYSlimes.
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