New York Observer | Democracy Now
"I want our writers to start reporting," says Village Voice Media executive editor
Michael Lacey. (His New Times chain acquired VVM last year.) "One of the things that happened with the Internet and blogging is that it made simple punditry in newsprint irrelevant. ...[New Times papers] have a reputation for doing hard news. We call people up and get the information. We dig the records up. If people [at the Village Voice] aren’t comfortable with that, they’ll have to find employment elsewhere." (Earlier related
transcript.)
