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mike lacey

Village Voice Boss Honors Pal With Racial Slur

Mike Lacey, the pugnacious chief of Village Voice Media and overlord of alt-weeklies across America, is known to be a man not afraid to speak his mind. In fact, he's the self-proclaimed "asshole in charge." So attendees at a Phoenix Society of Professional Journalists awards dinner last Friday might have expected Lacey to say something interesting when he accepted an award on behalf of one of his papers [East Valley Tribune]. But they were less than amused when (the white man) Lacey referred to his deceased friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning [UPDATE: also white] journalist Tom Fitzpatrick, as "my nigger." More »

10:45 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,894 views, 43 comments

Latest by Superstarsteve: He looks like a man who combs his face every morning with a rake. more »

journalismism

Hick City Politicos Play Perfectly To Yokel Stereotype

Folio Weekly, the alt-weekly in Jacksonville, Florida (where I used to work), ran a story this month about the BDSM scene in Jacksonville. Their reporting on sexual practices that are not licensed by the Baptist church outraged a Jacksonville City Councilman, naturally, and he's made a formal call for the city to remove all of Folio's distribution boxes from its property. Which the city is seriously considering. The righteous councilman reasons that children go to libraries, and what's to prevent them from picking up this article and turning into whip-wielding kink fiends? And the worst part is he was actually forced to read the blasphemous article—slowly, no doubt—in order to know what the god-fearing citizens are up against! From his letter to the mayor: More »

2:24 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,614 views, 33 comments

Latest by famousauthor: I think they should also ban all newspapers that report murders in Jacksonville from public property. They're just giving people bad ideas. After all, which would you rather have: someone erotically whipped, or someone absolutely dead? more »

explications

What's Happening With The Tribune Deal?

Remember those blissful days back in April, before anyone knew about Rupert Murdoch's evil plans to take over the Wall Street Journal and the biggest media acquisition story going was the one about Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell's plans to buy Tribune? Yeah, we thought we were done with that one too. Unfortunately, not yet! The Times, Journal and Los Angeles Times all take a look at the deal, scheduled to be completed tomorrow, and agree: The damn thing might not happen. Why? More »

1:45 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By abalk
1,015 views, 4 comments

Latest by katieee: @KarenUhOh: You mean you weren't completely engrossed by the article about adults who enjoy buying school supplies!? more »

MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe isn't worried that users might be troubled by Rupert Murdoch's ownership of the site, since most of them are too uninformed to realize that News Corp. actually has anything to do with it. [Independent]

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newsweek

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

Says Newsweek editor Jon Meacham: More »