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01 November 2007

Do twentysomethings still read the Village Voice? I used to read that paper religiously when I was a provincial college kid in the late eighties and early nineties. →[More:]

Now, having made it to the Big City, I can't frigging stand the sight of that paper. The only things I can bear to read are the restaurant reviews and Dan Savage.

Is it still relevant to younger people? Do they still enjoy it, find it informative and interesting?

Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just having an attack of "Get Off My Lawn."

post by: jason's_planet at: 10:17 | 8 comments

It's far too NYC-centric for me.

I can't see how anyone who isn't from New York would find much to read there.

posted by chuckdarwin 01 November | 10:46

(as a Midwestern kid): I don't read it, I don't know anyone who does, including people who are from the New York area at my college.

posted by dismas 01 November | 11:10

I'll scan it every week, if I can find a copy before getting on the subway. I don't make it a priority, and I don't think I've read a copy in a few weeks.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 November | 11:39

A journalist friend of mine would start her day by going through a stack of papers and magazines, tearing out the actual articles and throwing out the rest. The Voice reduced to about 6 pages.

posted by StickyCarpet 01 November | 11:52

The Voice has changed a lot over the years. It's gone through about a million different managing editors, and because of that it's become sort of schizophrenic. It is simply not the same paper it was in its glory days.

I don't read the articles any more, but I do still look at the event listings.

posted by brina 01 November | 12:07

I have never read it. Then again, I'm not a twentysomething.

posted by gaspode 01 November | 12:09

I'm an upper twenty-something and while the store I worked in last year carried it, no one near my age bought it. No one I know personally reads it, and though I'm sure he no longer works there, I hate Christgau with the passion of a billion suns.

posted by drezdn 01 November | 12:35

I never read it, my city has their own similar paper and reruns a lot of the same syndicated columns.

posted by kellydamnit 01 November | 15:31

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