Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Village Voice is Dead

How ironic that The Village Voice fired jazz reviewer and social critic Nat Hentoff the very same week The New Yorker published an article on the illustrious history of the groundbreaking magazine.

Hentoff, who had written for the publication since 1958 (and whose liner notes I've enjoyed on countless album back covers) deserves much better than this.

Hentoff fired article:
http://gothamist.com/2008/12/31/village_voice_fires_nat_hentoff_lyn.php

The New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/05/090105fa_fact_menand
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