The Village Voice's Strange 50th
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 12:08 PM
Just got the press release on the Village Voice's 50th anniversary issue, out this week. Lots of great stuff in there, including reprints of old VV articles by Norman Mailer, Edward Albee, and Joyce Carol Oates...but hardly a word on the paper's unpopular planned merger with alt-weekly chain New Times, also announced this week.
Jarrett Murphy drops two sentences on the NT-VV deal at the end of his history of Voice ownership:
"Just over 24 hours before this anniversary issue went to press, Village Voice Media...announced its plans to merge with New Times, which has 11 papers and is the country's biggest alternative-newspaper chain. The deal is subject to Department of Justice approval, a process that could take up to six months because the DOJ is expected to request additional information from the companies."
Former VV writer Mick Farren vents about the deal on his blog, Funtopia.
Click here for VV's entertaining slideshow featuring 50 years of VV covers.
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