Two Alt-Weekly Vets Say Goodbye
By AAN Staff
january 7, 2009 04:10 pm
In this week's
Village Voice, the
recently laid off Nat Hentoff
bids farewell with a column that touches on his time at the paper and his journalistic influences. "I came here in 1958 because I wanted a place where I could writer freely on anything I cared about," he writes. "There was no pay at first, but the
Voice turned out to be a hell of a resounding forum." On the other coast,
LA Weekly veteran Marc Cooper, who was
let go a few months ago,
has posted what he's calling an "autopsy" of the
Weekly on his website. Cooper, who first joined the paper in 1982, pulls no punches in his nearly-6,000-word piece, but the gist can be found in one of the closing paragraphs. "If there was ever a time for an aggressive, irreverent, credible metro weekly to take on the [
Los Angeles Times], it's right now, right here," he writes. "That requires investment, not layoffs."