[lbo-talk] the latest in the long, sad decline of the Village Voice

[Dennis Perrin]

Inevitable, I'm afraid. Does NYC even *have* a viable weekly anymore, much 
less an "alt" one? As much as I detested the ownership of NY Press (for whom 
I wrote in their early days), there was a time when their roster was much 
better than the Voice's. Now the Press has gone completely down the tubes, 
along with the Voice.

One of the best things about the Voice in its peak period was how its 
writers were always at war with each other, and that this was played out in 
its pages. Some of the best battles were over Israel and the Palestinians, 
with Cockburn taking on Paul Berman, Jack Newfield, and Sol Stern with 
little to no back-up, though Hentoff came around during Israel's invasion of 
Lebanon in '82.

Dennis