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In reply to the discussion: Axed Cartoonist (Tom Tomorrow) Blasts Village Voice Ownership, ‘Bain Capital of the Altweeklies’ [View all]alp227
(32,013 posts)35. This whole deal smells like Bain Capital right here.
There's a free weekly (non-VV) in my area. That weekly carries Tom Tomorrow. His cartoons are funny. I was shocked to read he was fired. And then I read about Village Voice Media in Wikipedia, what happened to it in the mid-2000s sounds like what Bain Capital did to companies like Sensata and Staples. No, I do not have memories of VV like you do as I would consider 2006 or 2007 the time I was old enough to care about whatever VV covered (I was in the middle of high school at the time).
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Axed Cartoonist (Tom Tomorrow) Blasts Village Voice Ownership, ‘Bain Capital of the Altweeklies’ [View all]
Hissyspit
Oct 2012
OP
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Ken Burch
Oct 2012
#7
as a NYer, the voice is not what it was 5 years ago since its sale then
graham4anything
Oct 2012
#13
I agree. I lived in NYC up until a few months ago and found the VV almost unreadable
smirkymonkey
Oct 2012
#23