Weekly Planet (Tampa) has laid off three editorial staffers -- News Editor Francis X. Gilpin and staff writers Trevor Aaronson and Rochelle Renford -- citing flat revenue and a desire to shift focus from political to cultural coverage, the St. Petersburgh Times reports. Neil Skene, senior vice president, group publisher, of the Planet's parent company, Creative Loafing, says the weekly will now use freelance writers for political coverage.
This is not just a sartorial question in Jefferson Parish, La., where two prosecutors have been wearing their hand-painted neckties showing a hangman's noose and a grim reaper during capital punishment trials. After helping The New York Times break the story of the dubious prosecutorial neckwear, Katy Reckdahl goes deep into issues of lingering racism and the scars of history in Louisiana.
Orange County’s Pink Pistols are all for peace, love and understanding among straights and gays. Meantime, they’re taking target practice, and the motto of the national organization is "Armed gays don’t get bashed." Members -- gay, lesbian and straight -- want to avoid victimization and find the Pink Pistols more to their taste than the NRA. "The point is bullies might be far less inclined to screw with someone who’s packing," Steve Lowery writes in OC Weekly.
The LA Weekly's Nancy Updike reports on the rise and fall of one more fad diet -- the no-fuss Body Solutions plan. "Eat whatever you want, don't worry about exercising, and then just stop eating and drinking three hours before bed and take one tablespoonful of Body Solutions' Evening Weight Loss Formula with a glass of water right before you go to sleep. Watch the pounds melt off." Shortly after Updike's first interview with the company's main researcher, Body Solutions was bankrupt and being sued by the Federal Trade Commission. The story is part of LA Weekly's "Body Politic," a five-story package on body image.
New York-based Avalon Equity Partners is now the majority owner of both the New York Press and Window Media, which operates a number of gay weeklies, including the New York Blade News and the Washington Blade. Cynthia Cotts of The Village Voice writes that the gay media worries about Avalon's ownership, fearing a private equity company with no gay credentials will undermine the integrity of their product. David W. Unger, co-founder and managing partner of Avalon, insists that neither the Press nor the gay publications will lose their identities simply by being connected through a mutual investor. Unger says the Press should make money "with just a little hands-on management."
After declaring his split with conservatives and the administration's war policy in Seattle Weekly, Philip Gold, an old-line right-wing intellectual, has resigned his post as a defense analyst at Seattle's conservative Discovery Institute, Seattle Times reports. Gold, who has also been on talk radio debating Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger, says, "Conservatives have lost their soul," but he can't join the "blame-America-first-crowd" either.
Yes, alternative weekly readers are aging, but that's mainly because "there are just too many people in America getting too damn old," argues John Morrison of the Alternative Weekly Network. Analyzing Media Audit data, Morrison establishes conclusively that alternative weekly readers between the ages 35-54 are actually younger than the general population of 18 to 34-year-olds. Well, maybe they're not physically younger, but they go to more movies, attend more concerts, ride their bicycles more often, and even drink more beer than the Gen X and Y'ers who are young enough to be their children. If they had any children, that is.
Prosecutors investigating the New Times-Village Voice Media deal that closed New Times LA and Cleveland Free Times worked through the weekend taking depositions, according to the L.A. Times' Tim Rutten. Sources familiar with the depositions told Rutten that prosecutors "repeatedly returned to questions concerning the nature of alternative journalism and the impact of New Times' closure on local news coverage." One unidentified witness said many of the prosecutors' questions "seemed to be driven by their belief that unlike a mainstream daily newspaper, an alternative weekly is suffused throughout with a particular point of view. They seem to believe that losing an alternative paper is a greater hardship to the community in that way than losing a mainstream daily."
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