Culture war at the Village VoiceBy Tim Redmond
Good article in the Boston Phoenix on the fallout from the New Times-Village Voice merger. The basic point that writer Adam Reilly makes:
The core of the old New Times chain was Southwestern and Southern. And those regions of the country have a different political culture — more socially conservative, more reflexively anti-government — than coastal markets like Los Angeles and New York, or progressive Midwestern enclaves like the Twin Cities. “Phoenix, Denver, Miami — there’s something about the culture of those cities that’s similar,” says Robson. “There’s a frontier mentality that New Times’ libertarian nihilism matches up with.”
None of the old VVM papers fits this description, but New York fits it the least.
Considering that New Times (Now Village Voice Media) owns the SF Weekly and East Bay Express, the article is well worth a read.
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