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Tampa Faux-Alt Folds Amid Profanity Flap

By AAN Staff
february 1, 2007  04:10 pm
Tampa Faux-Alt Folds Amid Profanity Flap
Media General has pulled the plug on its struggling Orange magazine, reports Creative Loafing Tampa. The closure comes one week after the faux-alt's editor, Mitzi Gordon, was fired for running an article about a fashion designer and her online store, The CUNT Shop. That issue hit the streets a day late after company executives decided to scrap a full run and reprinted the paper with the offending article removed. Orange's publisher says the newspaper, which had shrunk to 20 pages in recent weeks, "didn't meet our business expectations." Gordon tells CL that Media General was never clear about what they wanted from the paper or why they hired her. "I was idealistic," she says. "I was trying to create something that was going to create a buzz. I should have known that Media General wasn't going to stand for my hijinks."
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