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axing Ridgeway (as well as Nat Hentoff and perhaps Christgau and J.Hoberman next) is extraordinarily dumb IMO, to put it in marketing speak the Village Voice's "brand" value lies in its rich history and the surviving veterans who most readers love to hate/argue with.

I bet the NT has focus groop research demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that the VV's ideal brand identity is, in their words, "a Pennysaver with boobies."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)

Ogling breasts isn't just for straight men and lesbians anymore. Moving beyond traditional labels, gay men and straight women are outing themselves as "boobiesexuals."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Well at least "my straight friend 'Amy'" won't be writing an angry letter.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Why was Nick Sylvester finally fired? “[A]bout a week ago I heard from someone inside the Voice that when Sylvester sat down with a lawyer to go through his emails on the story, his entire account has been mysteriously deleted. At that point, they asked him to leave, for real this time.”

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

i still cant stand this guy

― ++++, Monday, 3 April 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

But Mr. Trife, he was so accepting of the kids and their ways. Do you hate youth?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

that fucking guy on the 'atl' film -- j-ho wdn't have commissioned that?

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

http://riffmarket.blogspot.com/

I have to admit, the "PUTTING RIFF MARKET ON SUICIDE WATCH" headline cracked me up

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

what about Liquid Liquid nick?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

good to see new stuff, but it reads like he's entering a fat Orson Welles twilight.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Is nick working for ANYONE at this point?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

The weekend.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

i notice me, trife, and miccio are mysteriously absent from the new link's bar.

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I was never on his links bar in the first place! We had a cautious relationship that only turned affectionate in private.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

OMG OMG he didn't link to me!

heavens!

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

The net is about touching each other.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

That's what my uncle steve told me, but believe me, he was wrong.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Plus Jess, you don't update for shit. In fact, I think I'm tired of sending readers over to a picture of King Biscuit Time.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

^^ lol, otm, etc

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

i have an entire city to annoy with my half-baked ideas now

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

be like me and post links to your "short list" then.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

how's work going?

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

i kinda miss retail, i gotta be honest.

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

also gel & weave still falls under the banner of "don't update for shit" (xp)

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

What's a blog?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but you're making more. That's gotta be nice.

I'm burning a mix now and leaving for it in 15 minutes.

It goes "Round The Bend," "Rasputin," "Hot! Hot! Hot!," "Freak Scene" and so on. I say this so you don't think I'm ripping on King Biscuit Time.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

well, ethan's got no excuse

xpost

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

if it makes you feel better, nobody links my blog anywhere that i know of!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

then again i only update once a week and discuss music only on occasion

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

The Voice has an immediate opening for a staff writer. We're looking for journalists who understand the difference between magazine-style reporting and the hurried factoid-finding of daily papers. The ideal candidate must have the ability to create in-depth and compelling stories that explore issues, events, and people.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits. Send cover letter, résumé, and clips to: Ward Harkavy
Interim Editor in Chief Village Voice
36 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

No one's mentioned this yet, have they?

www.gawker.com/news/village-voice/vv-staff-protests-ridgeways-firing-management-doesnt-care-165363.php

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I'm not very good at the internet.

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

hey, man, it's cool, since you're from the 19th century and all.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm O.K. with it, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

where did you find that opening, joseph? there's no sign of it on the voice website.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

It's on the letters/corrections page and on the last pages of letters in the print edition.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

did anyone ever reveal or postulate why they fired Ridgway? if its upthread don't bother responding, i'll event. get there.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I don't think anyone has said, Susan. It's just bizarre. The Voice's mission since Don Forst took over was to be "newsier." So... ? Is its mission now to be a kind of cheaper-looking Time Out?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

even if it were, its curious timing bus. sense-wise imo...firing multiple people for multiple separate reasons together. confuse the staff and yes, lower morale and foster resentment. i assumed it was somehow atleast vaguely related to the scandal. i know people thought it was unfair (which may be true) but the firings and esp. timing of firings up until then, I could make sense of.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Ridgeway writes political commentary. New Times hates political commentary. I think that's it. I'm mostly surprised they didn't axe Hentoff first. (Maybe they thought that was a worse PR move?)

As far as confusing the staff, lowering morale, and fostering resentment, NT wouldn't be the first newspaper bosses to operate from the "alcoholic stepdad" model of office management.

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

oh man. on that letters page the voice's new aversion to "hurried fact-finding" gets pwnd even by a member of an, ahem, "mutant bike gang."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

The Voice has an immediate opening for a staff writer. We're looking for journalists who understand the difference between magazine-style reporting (EXCITING!) and the hurried factoid-finding of daily papers (BORING). However, if you don't get your facts straight, we will fire you.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits, including free soda and candy bars for the ADHD deficient and plenty of swords to fall on.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the problem is he didn't go for the money.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I've also been really curious about the Ridgeway matter. Tried digging up some stuff last week w/o luck but now there's more out there --

http://www.gawker.com/news/village-voice/vv-staff-protests-ridgeways-firing-management-doesnt-care-165363.php

I'm far less interested in picking up the Voice w/o him. I didn't agree with everything he wrote but I always enjoyed reading him because I knew he'd cover something nobody else had or cover something familiar from a different angle. It doesn't actually appear that JR did anythign to get fired. Rather, as Martin points out, it seems that it's because he is who he is.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Well, my link's redundant now that I read further up, but it's active at least...

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, canned Voice proofers can take heart from this current headline on the webpage:

"Making Bohemia Save for the Oscars"

(And yeah, I read the story just to make sure it wasn't about the proposed elimination of federal Oscar-related loans or something.)

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Hurried factoid finding =

"Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors' had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him... The incident catapulted auto safety into the public spotlight and helped send Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) to the top of the bestseller lists."

magazine-style reporting =

"Did our eyes deceive us? Walking by Herald Square recently, we idly peered into Macy's windows, only to receive this cornea-scalding image: Maxim-brand bedding."

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I READ GAWKER TOO

(not rilly)

(i think Hentoff's pretty safe coz he's been treading on hitchens territory for some time now & writing about politics isn't "political" as long as you don't look too classically lefty about it)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Making Bohemia Save for the Oscars

no, i get it: dominik hasek to star in havel biopic!

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

he's been treading on hitchens territory for some time now

really?? guess I don't read him very often. every time I look at the Voice he's writing about Bush raping the Constitution. (as well he should)

― Renard (Renard), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

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