Survivor Rules Free Times' Death a Suicide
By AAN Staff
october 10, 2002 10:14 am
Pete Kotz, editor of the surviving
alt-weekly in Cleveland, admits it's
"bad form to dance on the grave
of another. " Honesty,
however, "runs by a less civilized code,"
Kotz writes of the deal between New
Times and Village Voice Media last week
that shuttered VVM's Cleveland Free
Times and New Times Los Angeles. "The
Free Times' death wasn't
unexpected or sudden. It
was long, slow
suicide," Kotz says.
And he charges David Eden, the editor,
with turning the paper into "a barking
poodle
with no house training."