What Happened to Our Voice?

What’s worse is the reviews that are reprinted in sister pubs are oftentimes edited — heavy-handedly in some cases and without the writer’s consent — to fit space constraints. This leaves the writer with multiple versions of her/his review circulating on the Internet(s). For someone like Lacey, who is supposedly a writer’s executive editor, this doesn’t say much about his willingness to preserve a writer’s voice.

Comment by Anonymous — January 22, 2007 @ 3:21 pm

I know what they’re talking about. Denver’s VVM “alternative weekly,” Westword, has been on sharp decline since inception. There feature story this week was about the grills people wear on their teeth in hip hop culture. Last time it was about two old men who run a porno business. Boring.

I am amazed with how many time their writers take up so-called controversial stories, but usually end up with what one local letter writer described as “empty nonsense.”

But my favorite was when the paper wrote a feature on a man who helped guys pick up women in bars. It later turned out that he was a neo-nazi.

Not only are arts completely underrepresented in the paper, but reporting lacks a great deal. College papers do a better job on the arts.

Comment by Spike Jones from Denver — January 23, 2007 @ 12:47 am