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The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes

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Re: The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes

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Post by anoncoward111 »

I think it's really telling that even though I consume content voraciously and am a highly educated 26 year old making a decent wage, I have never heard of literally any of these writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. I only know ee cummings in passing, because my high school English textbook told me he was famous for using non-standard punctuation and capitalization.

I'm sad that an alt-news source has died. I would have loved to consume their content, but I wouldn't have paid for it. I don't really buy much stuff either, so ads don't work on me.

RIP

Re: The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes

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Post by jmspring »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #2

I think it's really telling that even though I consume content voraciously and am a highly educated 26 year old making a decent wage, I have never heard of literally any of these writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. I only know ee cummings in passing, because my high school English textbook told me he was famous for using non-standard punctuation and capitalization. I'm sad that an alt-news source has died. I would ha…

You are just of an age where the periodical wasn't really relevant any longer as another poster mentioned -- it started it's decline in the early 2000s. EE Cummings was known for way more than just the village voice.

Re: The Village Voice, a New York Icon, Closes

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Post by charred_toast »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #2

I think it's really telling that even though I consume content voraciously and am a highly educated 26 year old making a decent wage, I have never heard of literally any of these writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. I only know ee cummings in passing, because my high school English textbook told me he was famous for using non-standard punctuation and capitalization. I'm sad that an alt-news source has died. I would ha…

Can you elaborate on being "highly-educated?"

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Post by iCannotEven »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #2

I think it's really telling that even though I consume content voraciously and am a highly educated 26 year old making a decent wage, I have never heard of literally any of these writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. I only know ee cummings in passing, because my high school English textbook told me he was famous for using non-standard punctuation and capitalization. I'm sad that an alt-news source has died. I would ha…

  I wouldn't have paid for it.
It was a free newspaper and website. It was like The Onion. No one paid to read it. Repeat: no one.

It existed to appeal to people, and get ads in front of them. Just like The Onion. At which point, whether the ads worked or not (and just like everywhere else on the internet, people resist and try to ignore ads, and that resistance is a known quantity) advertisers paid to get in front of eyeballs. Mostly, New York concert venues paid for its existence, and you picked up the paper, to see who was playing that week, or what dates upcoming shows were. That's why it was free in New York. It didn't really advertise any events outside of New York.

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Post by mirimir »

xrd wrote: post #5

The irony and tragedy of a former Village Voice writer Tom Robbins now at the NYU Craig Newmark journalism school. Craig Newmark, the founder of the site that killed print newspapers. I'll miss the Voice.

Maybe it should be "... History of Journalism School".
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