![]() The reasons for this are much bigger than The Village Voice itself. Yes, it was outside the offices of The Village Voice that local protesters, including a son of Voice co-founder Norman Mailer, congregated to protest the continued operation of. Goldman's shame had chiseled away one chunk of V.V.M.'s financial security.īut that's the thing: V.V.M., which owns and operates more than a dozen alternative weekly newspapers in cities across the country in addition to, isn't that secure anyway. Kristof subsequently investigated the ownership of, and when he began asking questions of Goldman Sachs about their ownership stake in Village Voice Media, they abruptly unloaded their $30 million, 16-percent share in the company. But Kristof's column became a sort of crusade for the paper, and it had legs. Kristof's column came late in the game: Interest groups and nonprofits that fight sex trafficking had been complaining about for some time. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's January 25 column, " How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls," established pretty convincingly that the erotic-services advertising website owned by Village Voice Media was used to promote prostitution, and often violent and usurious forms of the practice. (To a greater or lesser degree, these have all also been subtly different from each other but our topic here is New York.) It's a subtlety that makes a difference, and that has been the source of much of the internal tension at the paper, at which tumult has been a rule since its founding, but which has become a particularly nasty place to be these last seven years. In fact, the purposes and character of the Voice have always been subtly different from the purposes and characters of "alt" papers like the Twin Cities' City Pages, Chicago's Chicago Reader, the City Papers of Washington and Baltimore, and the New Times papers of Phoenix and Miami. It's often said, carelessly I think, that the Voice is the grandfather paper of the "alternative newsweekly" tradition in American journalism. ![]() It's the marquee title in the company's stable of newspapers-the buyers, New Times Media, even changed their name to emphasize the Voice brand. The Voice has always been a problem child for its owner, Village Voice Media, which acquired the paper and several others it owned and operated back in 2005. ![]()
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