Alt-Weekly Editor: We're Driven By Passion, Not Profit
By AAN Staff
november 11, 2003 04:27 pm
Responding to readers who accused the paper of
opposing a local smoking ban to further its own
economic interests, Austin Chronicle Editor
Louis Black says Publisher Nick
Barbaro is "the poster child for the financially
uninterested" and defends his paper in the strongest
terms: "This publication is free. We have neither
business plan nor profit target. The staff, in every
department, is passionately devoted to the
Chronicle, striving for quality beyond reason. ...
Over the years, just about everything we've ever done
where money was the primary motive has cost
us dearly. Most of what we did for love paid
off."