Philadelphia City Paper
Bruce Schimmel says what the Village Voice did to
Nick Sylvester and his editor,
Doug Simmons, "is surely a shot across the bow of the mother ship of New Journalism. That's good, if writers rely more on honest craft than dishonest jiggering. But alt weeklies have always served as workshops to forge new forms of trust between writer and reader, and I'd hate to see a retreat. Because in these repressive times, we all need every means to tell the truth that we can invent." Schimmel's editor,
Duane Swierczynski, writes: "Now I love Bruce, but as I edited his column, I was overcome with the urge to take an axe to him."
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Earlier: Village Voice suspends Sylvester for fabricating part of story (VV)
