{"id":1166,"date":"2009-01-12T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/01\/la-weekly-new-times-village-voice-etc.html"},"modified":"2009-01-12T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T22:25:00","slug":"la-weekly-new-times-village-voice-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/01\/la-weekly-new-times-village-voice-etc.html","title":{"rendered":"LA WEEKLY, NEW TIMES, VILLAGE VOICE, ETC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SW0nQdP3qQI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/OVBhdHe9gr4\/s1600-h\/newspaper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SW0nQdP3qQI\/AAAAAAAAABw\/OVBhdHe9gr4\/s320\/newspaper.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Readers and media-watchers here in LA have followed the dismantling of the LA Weekly as editors like Joe Donnelly (who i once worked for) and film critic Ella Taylor were shown the door&#8230; here&#8217;s a long, provocative &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marccooper.com\/la-weekly-the-autopsy-report\/\">autopsy<\/a>&#8221; by longtime lefty journalism Marc Cooper that is a kind of mini-history of the alt press, perhaps the bookend to the elegantly written but somewhat puzzling louis\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/01\/05\/090105fa_fact_menand\">menand piece<\/a> on the village voice in the recent new yorker&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>scroll down for comments by donnelly, former new times LA editor rich barrs, and others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>and i will maintain my policy of not taking sides in the endless new times vs. LA Weekly battles &#8212; having worked for the former (and been weirdly both fired and rehired) and later marrying a former freelancer associated with the latter it&#8217;s just full of too many weird contradictions for me&#8230; but here is a first-person <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2002\/oct\/03\/news\/lv-newtimes3\">column<\/a> i wrote in 02 when new times LA suddenly shut down. i think parts of this are still pertinent today&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers and media-watchers here in LA have followed the dismantling of the LA Weekly as editors like Joe Donnelly (who i once worked for) and film critic Ella Taylor were shown the door&#8230; here&#8217;s a long, provocative &#8220;autopsy&#8221; by longtime lefty journalism Marc Cooper that is a kind of mini-history of the alt press, perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-village-voice","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}