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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)

ok its a bit of an overstatement coz he's v. civil libertarian still (not that hitchens isn't?) but his pro-zionist bent has been increasingly informing all his bigger international policy stuff.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Sterling, the things you think make you Christopher Hickens.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Or Hitchens. Man, it's amazing how quickly I can blow my credibility.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Faster than you can say no Sufjan.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Interview with Ridgeway, Hentoff, Schanberg ....

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

a new riff central: game v. sylvester http://riffcentral.blogspot.com/

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

as in, its sylvester's side of the snafu

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

NICK SYVLESTER: NOTHING, YOURE RIGHT. I FUCKED UP THERE. IT'S JSUT WITH THESE PIECES ITS LESS ABOUT THE FACTS OF THE TREND, MORE ABOUT WHY PEOPLE NEED TRENDS TO EXIST, THEN THE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO REFUSE ANY PART OF THEM, STUFF LIKE THAT, AND SATIRE MUDDIES THAT INTENT
GAME @RIFFCENTRAL: GAME IS CONFUSED
NICK SYLVESTER: THATS WHAT IM SAYING

GAME@RIFFCENTRAK: IS THAT WHY YOU USED PEOPLES ACTUAL NAMES AND PUT YOURSELF INTO THE PIECE INSTEAD OF MAKING UP NAMES LIKE MOST TREND PIECES THAT ACT LIKE THE TREND EXISTS OUTSIDE OF THEIR GROUP OF FRIENDS?

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I FUCKED UP THERE.
I FUCKED UP THERE.
I FUCKED UP THERE.

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

fun

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bjacked.net/LuvToHunt/forums/phpBB2/modules/gallery/albums/album01/Beat_Dead_Horse.jpg

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

i like the belle and sebastian album.

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

That Democracy Now transcript is waaay depressing.

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

"You know, I don't think anyone should own 17 alternative papers."
Tim Redmond/SF Bay Guardian on New Times/VVM in 1st link.

― JAYA (blunt), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

this is all terribly depressing.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid9447.aspx

He also has review of the T.I. disc in the new Phoenix, but I can't find it on their site.

― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

y'know, the fake riffcentral interviews were always by far my least favorite of Sylvester's schticks, but I thought that was a brilliant way to handle things, and it made me laugh a few times.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I have some information that may vindicate Mr. Sylvester. Email me at [email protected].

― Alex in Baghdad, Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

there were no WMDs found at misshapes!?!?@!

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm doing the "I knew it!" amateur conspiracy theorist spit take right now due to that "it wasn't for the front page" crap. I hope Nick is back on his feet doing ok, there are way too many crappier "journalists" out there.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Here's his T.I. review:
http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid9289.aspx

― Nigel (Nigel), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

"I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

hahaha sterling

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

um. hahaha. hahahha
haha.

― Alex in Baghdad, Friday, 21 April 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/education/18cheating.html

it's better to be right than first

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Though the thread is only sorta related, nice opportunity to bring this up. Ad posted by Rob Harvilla on the Voice's Web site. Funny ad, yes, and as always am sure to say, I respect Rob's ability and know he's a dutiful (alebit talented) employee. But how fucking nuts is this? Reads:

Get paid to write about your mail for the Village Voice.
The Voice is looking to broaden its base of freelance music writers, who're responsible for reviews, features, interview profiles, investigative boondoggles, and existentialist rants. Though maybe not so much of that last one, and no using the word "angular" either. E-mail a few clips, your musical genres of expertise (all are warmly welcome), and a snappy intro to Rob Harvilla. No calls or regular mail, please.

That'd be normal if it was in maybe Scranton or Biloxi. But the Voice *soliciting* for music writers? Or needing an ad to get queries from the talented among us? Another weird example of NT's thinking -- as if having the most diverse and largest roster of music writers in the world on the Rolodex is a bad thing to them.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:47 (twenty years ago)

what? no napkin!?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Though he's right ... we kinda do get paid for being on the Schwag Pony Express.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

"existentialist rants" = the NT's formulaic anti-intellectual dismissal of the best VV pieces of the past, no doubt

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

"it used to be crazy man, all these, these ... i dunno, existentialist rants! those were different times though, you know?"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Funny you should mention, Rob just e-mailed me today and asked if I wanted to do a fomulaic anti-intellectual dismissal of a great VV piece of the past.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Also, I briefly confused the title of this thread with the one below it at the time and thought it was "nick sylvester = bon jovi". Now there's a think-piece for you.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

damn. i was in the middle of a pitch for an anti-formulaic intellectual dismissal of a great VV piece of the past. I guess that pitch has been nearly scooped.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

No, I bet we'll do different ones.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm pitching to review music blogs in the style of Cheryl Tweedy.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

I never knew the Voice was lacking people who wanted to write for the music section!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

HI ILX, WE HATE YOU TOO

― NEW TIMES GUY (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

that solicitation reads like a house ad that would run in a college newspaper. i guess the transformation is nearly complete.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

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