What New York publication got demonstrated against for refusing to carry gay bathhouse ads? Attacked by libbists (job discrimination), though most of the administrative staff was female? Not attacked by blacks, although—from Day One in 1955 to now—there hasn’t been so much as a token mulatto on its masthead? national review, right? Wrong. The Village Voice.
Suppose I told you that VV was a conservative rag? You’d think I’d been sniffing Elmer’s Glue-All again. Ofcourse VV isn’t reactionary. With a pig-sticker leftist like Jack Newfield writing in his, thank God, inimitable style, how could it be? On your other hand what is/was VV? Not a radical sheet, not a Thirties liberal sheet: more of a contour sheet. And maybe, once upon another decade, it was in fact the Great American Newspaper.
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