{"id":221,"date":"2008-09-16T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=221"},"modified":"2018-10-31T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:00:55","slug":"city-paper-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"City Paper Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve kind of not so secretly hated the City Paper<\/a> for many years now.\u00a0 I suppose every \u201calternative\u201d weekly of that ilk is run by silver spoon suburbanites pretending to be hip, but it\u2019s not just the vague classism that\u2019s polluted the City Paper,\u00a0 I\u2019ve had a personal vendetta against senior writer Jason Cherkis for years now.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have a good reason, and he knows nothing about it, I just think he\u2019s an idiot.
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What is a \u201csenior writer\u201d anyway?\u00a0 Is that an actual position or does that mean he\u2019s just been stuck in a rut at a free weekly newspaper for too long?<\/p>\n

Anyway, the big news today is that the City Paper is taking a financial hit, according to the DCeiver<\/a>, who heard via Fishbowl DC, who heard via DCist (my sister\u2019s cousin\u2019s roommate says\u2026).\u00a0 The City Paper is cutting $170,000,\u00a0 which means they will no longer have the budget to go to restaurants in DC and pretend to be cool.\u00a0 And maybe they\u2019ll execute whoever is in charge of all that stupid kitschy stuff like this shit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the casualties will be the District Line column, which is a shame, and the cover stories will be \u201cphased out.\u201d\u00a0 I guess that means that we\u2019ll get a coupon and adverts rag (more so than it currently is), with entertainment listings hidden in the back.\u00a0 Which makes the paper even more worthless.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the City Paper blogs will, no doubt, see an increase in idiotic rants from soon to be out of work writers (though no staff cuts have been announced, they\u2019re inevitable) who appear to be well into their second bottle of gin at 8am each morning.<\/p>\n

Except for Amanda Hess<\/a>.\u00a0 I like Amanda Hess.\u00a0 And Sadie Dingfelder<\/a>. How about they fire Cherkis and the like and promote those two?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve kind of not so secretly hated the City Paper for many years now.\u00a0 I suppose every \u201calternative\u201d weekly of that ilk is run by silver spoon suburbanites pretending to be hip, but it\u2019s not just the vague classism that\u2019s …<\/p>\n

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