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LA Weekly Columnist Bites VVM

By AAN Staff
february 13, 2003  10:22 am
LA Weekly Columnist Bites VVM
There is a "philosophical disconnect" between LA Weekly's corporate owner, Village Voice Media, and its own avowedly liberal publications, Erin Aubry Kaplan writes. "There are other things writers cannot say about the places they work that I am going to say here, too, because the Weekly is still a place where you can say them." She writes that the company has "been sharpening its nose into that of a corporate shark," with its controversial deal with New Times to close papers in competing markets and its opposition to unionization attempts in L.A. "I wish VVM had taken the ironies of its position more seriously," she concludes.
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