Is Everybody Who Edits the Village Voice Really This Stupid?

If it's any consolation, this is a good song to sing along with:
Sometimes it gets so hard to care,
It can't be this way everywhere.
I'm gonna let you pass.
And I'll go last.
Time will tell
Just who has fell
And who's been left be-
hi-i-ind,
When you go your way and I go mine.

maura got canned for this guy?

He's overseeing the blogs throughout the chain.

chain chain chain

What the hell's the deal there?

― fadanuf4erybody, Friday, September 14, 2012 5:03 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

he does what people ask him to do

i almost feel bad for westhoff. he's being crucified all over the place today dude to forces that are much bigger than him, and idk, he's given a platform to a few very good writers. and he's keeping himself employed. but i'm not sure if i've ever liked his writing and his editorial direction of the LA weekly section was pretty terroristic.

i actually thought maura left of her own accord when i heard this, given the general sort of intransigence and cluelessness that VV media management traffic in, so i'm surprised to read the quote above where she said the decision wasn't hers

one thought i had today was whether or not this is going to be the final nail in the coffin of P&J and whether some other site (or people independently) should try and pull a jackin pop 2.0

yeah that definitely crossed my mind today

sorry maura, you did a good job

I'm just glad that finally someone in the Voice can have the courage to applaud Lenny Kravitz "for never conforming to racial expectations."

there are larger forces behind westoff's editorial work but when its your byline below 'Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs' and you are a 40 year old man and that raver is a senior in high school, then you deserve all the shit that comes your way

i honestly thought the worstoff twitter was just a parody thing, holy shit at those being actual quotes

Heh, the guy who wrote this really casually racist article is the editor-in-chief of the Seattle Weekly. :/

i honestly thought the worstoff twitter was just a parody thing, holy shit at those being actual quotes

Quotes from his writing and his twitter. What a prince.

This is dredging up a crapton of old memories. I thought I'd already gotten about as cynical as I could get about media stuff, but at this rate I'm going to be surprised if all media isn't just advertiser-sponsored in the next ten years, except for maybe the ny times and le monde or something, both of which will be blog subdivisions of huffpo, and the Sun, which will be the website of record, by virtue of being the only outlet that pays writers in anything other than promotional swag and jujubes.

i just found out that a local mag i write for, The Urbanite, announced today that it's shutting down, so yeah, definitely feeling like that at the moment.

Remember the black R&B (LOL) singer named Brandy? What happened to her?

i feel like a lot of folks have missed out on just how bad the la weekly music section is. nothing but really poorly done challopy lists and pix of raver chicks it seems.

village voice's sound of the city blog is going to become the pits, isn't it?

yes it is

i feel like the state of "alternative" journalism nowadays is like one huge intentional middle finger to anyone with taste--seemingly with few exceptions, the most egregiously awful writers have been promoted to editorial positions. under this set of circumstances chuck eddy looks like edmund wilson.

at least we get to work on some puns involving the new music editor's prophetic last name, "worstoff"

"are you better or worstoff than four years ago?"

worstoff IS a pun, his name is westhoff

oh shows how much i know.

the saga continues...

Ben Westhoff ‏@brwestho
New Voice music editor takes the reigns a week from Monday.

The 'saga' shows the guy can't even spell reins right!

Reigndance

The reigns in Spane fall manly on the planes.

RTVM: Do you think being on Real World helped with Reigndance at all?

Andre: No, not at all, MTV at that time was all about Nirvana, Pearl Jam and that scene.

I have been so tempted to go to a reigndance show, but I never did.

for all intensive purposes, this dude seems like a solid editor. a+.

his editorial direction of the LA weekly section was pretty terroristic. Gory details please? This may matter to some of us soon.

nice quote at the end of this 9 year old friggin' weird-ass thread:

"under this set of circumstances chuck eddy looks like edmund wilson."

and i just read the whole headache again so its all "fresh" in my mind. i'm not gonna forgetfullness anything!

Fuuuuck. Really?!?? Jesus Christ this sucks on several levels

Sorry to hear that, Al.

It's getting tougher and tougher out there

it's kind of funny/sad how those of us who trade in the written word scolded the music industry so much for not adapting to the internet fast enough to develop a sustainable new model that's remotely as profitable as the new one, when it turns out us typewriter monkeys got it way way worse in that department

Film crits had it worse, or first, overall. Also later, like Hoberman. The hits just keep on coming.

eh, hoberman's fine

i didn't mean music writers specifically, i meant broadly people working in newspapers, magazines etc.

Jordan, just the man I wanted to see. "Terroristic" in the section? Please tell.

i think maura will be fine too! she is way smart and and i know its hard finding a gig like that but if anyone can find a cool gig she can. anyone working at the VV now must have one eye on the clock anyway. not exactly a job-security kinda joint anymore.

maybe she'll go work at rhapsody with chuck and rob!

for your convenience, voice media and idolator have now merged and will be known as violator.

yeah Maura will have other jobs, for sure, maybe a way better one. but she did THAT job really well and it was fun to be a small part of it, so i'm still gonna be bummed. (xpost lol)

clover are you aware that there's already a company called violator and its founder recently committed suicide?

"Terroristic" in the section? Please tell.

― dow, Friday, September 14, 2012 10:39 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'd just go and take a look at the LA weekly blog. or read any of the stories from today about maura being released and westhoff taking over. they've put all their chips on pageview whoring and outright trolling, along with doing things like breaking up a 600 word story into 4 pages. real dumpster diving shit. it's no way to sustain a business, either.

for your convenience, voice media and idolator have now merged and will be known as violator.

commentary and dissent have merged to form dysentery.

are you aware that there's already a company called dysentery and its founder recently pooped?

some dude -- oh man, i didn't put two and two together and recognize the bad-taste connotation to my joke. didn't intend that at all.