On Sundays here, you're used to seeing a cartoon. (Briefly, I took a stab at some very humble toons of my own; time, unfortunately, has prevented me from keeping up with that for now.) Tom Tomorrow's consistently brilliant This Modern World has been posted here often. Under new ownership, the Village Voice's progressive viewpoint appears to be under attack. Some time during the last few months (Tom Tomorrow isn't even sure exactly when), the Voice summarily dropped This Modern World from its print edition. Tomorrow's groundbreaking strip has led the way in satirizing the widespread hypocrisy, inanity and irresponsibility in our mainstream media.
Tom has written a petition for fans to sign to get him back on the pages of the Voice. I strongly encourage you to do him a solid and sign it. When he has enough signatures, he plans on sending it to the New Boss.
Let's hope this works.
A Small Favor
by Tom Tomorrow
This Modern World (via Crooks and Liars)
Tom Tomorrow Yesterday's News to Village Voice
Posted by: MediaBloodhound | January 08, 2007 at 12:42 PM
This continues the Voice's slide since being sold to New Times which is a fake progressive publishing group. New Times' M.O. is to buy a real alt weekly, fire the majority of political and long loved writers (James Ridgeway and Robert Christgau at the Voice to name just two) and then put all the same columns in all their publications so that the Voice for example is now closer to a Big Mac that tastes the same wherever you go instead of having it's own distinctive progressive personality. The only thing worse than the left being attacked openly by the right is for the left to be undermined by a fake left group who answer only to their shareholders and not their readers.
Posted by: scuttle | January 08, 2007 at 07:43 PM
"The only thing worse than the left being attacked openly by the right is for the left to be undermined by a fake left group who answer only to their shareholders and not their readers."
Well said. I didn't think of this until now, but even Fox lets the Simpsons stay on the air. You'd figure the Voice, even in its new watered-down incarnation, wouldn't bother with its editorial cartoonists. Maybe that's an even more dire sign than sacking Ridgeway and Christgau.
Posted by: MediaBloodhound | January 10, 2007 at 09:55 PM