Smart move to get rid of those publications.
Some of the articles include info about Tony leaving to write a book about Scientology
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/usa-villagevoice-backpage-idINL1E8KN76R20120924
Thanks for that link, AnonyMary . . . and also thanks for all you do in the campaign to expose and bring down the cult.
I think it likely that the VV will resurrect itself successfully after it separates from the "sex thing."
As a
publication it has always been avant garde, outside the box and ahead of the curve.
I had dealings with them during the late 1980's HIV/AIDS thing. They were way ahead of the curve in terms of what they were reporting, revealing, exposing . . . and they were typically taking the non-establishment view and scoring huge wins!
Of course, in those days, their "personal ads" section was largely populated with variations on a basic theme of "I'm on offer, come and get it!"
It is published in the "village" part of NYC, after all . . . and that is home to the "Fairy Kingdom" of the east coast. In those days it was a wild west sex city only to be brought up short by the AIDS crisis.
So I would say, they will, as a newspaper, return to their successful action of honest exposé reporting . . . journalists love nothing more than to juornalise; and they will do it. There is little or no future in bland shit . . . to survive, they'll have to do sensational, honest stuff in and for their local communities as has been the history of the VV I know from the '80's.
They will return . . . but in better condition than those billion year contract dupees . .
R