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Dan Savage: "I want The Stranger to be conflicted and divided"

By AAN Staff

october 17, 2003 01:35 pm

Dan Savage: "I want The Stranger to be conflicted and divided"

In an interview with mediabistro.com, the editor/sex columnist describes his contrarian philosophy and his paper's brand of journalism ("The Stranger does advocacy journalism, and for the politicians we like we stump like hell for them"); opines on what separates good alt-weeklies from bad ("They have a really great sense of play") and names the ones he likes; and defines the daily-newspaper problem in a nutshell: "(I)f you don't have anything in your paper that's going to upset a five-year-old then 35-year-olds are going to look elsewhere for the kind of writing that appeals to them and speaks to them."

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