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This is the fairest piece I've seen yet on the new Village Voice Media and on what it's like to work for them. Lots of good, lots of bad, with a perfect quote from ex-OC editor Will Swaim:

“I took them at their word when they said they really like what I do,” says Will Swaim, the ex-publisher and editor of OC Weekly. “And my sense is, if you like what I do, leave me the fuck alone. That was not their sense. For them, process is very important.”

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oops here's URL

http://www.thephoenix.com/article.aspx?id=34665

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.brainwashed.com/vvm/images/releases/vukzid_hi/vukzid_89r.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

wow, VVM may just rock!! :-)

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

This is also the one piece where everyone on all sides comes across as looking good. Except for Andy Van de Voorde -- his must be the loneliest job in the world.

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

It's really not hard to figure out how to hyperlink people http://www.thephoenix.com/article.aspx?id=34665

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

oh piss off and just cut and paste ... is one really lazier than the other fine ... here an <a href=" .... target="_blank"> for you, bitch, :-)

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

You are Mike Lacey, and I claim my $5.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

This confirms that the P&J intro was written by Jensen and then rejected.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

It does say "purportedly".

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah you're right. Though that it was being considered for publication, whoever the author was, is asserted . Which seems significant.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

I think the disclosure that Jensen was once the Boston's paper's editor serves as a pseudoconfirmation that he wrote that lame essay.

― Jiminy Krokus, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

don't think we have an rip phoenix thread? http://longform.org/posts/the-longform-guide-to-the-boston-phoenix

rip phoenix. i never liked your music section, but i am sad to see you go.

― s.clover, Sunday, 17 March 2013 21:23 (twelve years ago)

[quote]“he did it by saying, ‘This guy was kicking our ass for the competition, so we figured it was a good idea to hire him to go kick other people’s asses.’ That’s emblematic of how they do things. It’s this kind of cheapskate-tough-guy swagger.”[/quote]

lol

― maura, Sunday, 17 March 2013 23:41 (twelve years ago)

sorry, that just sounded a bit too familiar. the closure of the phoenix is a bad thing.

― maura, Sunday, 17 March 2013 23:42 (twelve years ago)

So, how important is your alterna-weekly these days?

― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 March 2013 02:46 (twelve years ago)

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