Voice Editor Ortega: Why Stories Like The One In The Nation Are So Silly

It’s been four months since the Village Voice unceremoniously ousted David Blum and hired a “half-Mexican kid from L.A.” Yesterday we spoke with Village Voice editor Tony Ortega, the paper’s fifth in 15 months, about his first 100 or so days in office. His State of the Alt-Weekly Union:

How do you feel about the current state of alt-weeklies nationwide?
While the dailies are struggling, the mood at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in Portland, Oregon, last month seemed to be cautiously optimistic.

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