They, the People

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/145245

Loretta Dillon, on her blog, Observations of a Misfit, just linked the above article about the purchase and subsequent shake-up of the Village Voice.

Remember the Village Voice? The first "alternative" newspaper I ever heard of--back when it was called an "underground" newspaper.

Now it has been bought up by a conglomerate, the New Times Media, which has changed its name to Village Voice Media in honour of the occasion. So the Village Voice, a New York underground news source with an anti-establishment focus has sold its name to a corporation that is going around, buying up alternative news sources all over the country and bringing a certain uniformity to their reporting and editing.

How long do you think it will be before they are in Austin, trying to buy up the Chronicle?

Or in your town, buying up your alternative newspaper?

Is the World Wide Web the only news and editorial source left?

Why are we allowing this?

Have we become so complacent?