{"id":2739,"date":"2011-01-05T01:56:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T08:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/robbins-and-barrett-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:32:53","slug":"robbins-and-barrett-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/05\/robbins-and-barrett-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbins and Barrett Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em>
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2 Veterans Leave Village Voice<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0JEREMY W. PETERS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What becomes of New York\u2019s most formidable muckraking paper when two of its greatest muckrakers are gone?<\/p>\n

The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative weeklies, which enlivened political and investigative journalism in New York through its scrappy, hold-nothing-sacred approach, has lost\u00a0Wayne Barrett<\/a>\u00a0and Tom Robbins, two journalists who helped define the paper\u2019s modern era.<\/p>\n

The Voice without either man, some prominent New Yorkers said, is difficult to imagine. And their leaving raises questions about what kind of future the paper has in the city whose politics it fermented and culture it shaped.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the loss of Wayne and Tom, they lost Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle,\u201d said Don Forst, who was editor of The Voice from 1996 to 2005 and edited the work of both men<\/p>\n

Mr. Forst said their departures left the paper, which had already been downsized considerably in the last decade, greatly diminished. \u201cIt was a great institution for what it was,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was not The Times. It wasn\u2019t The Post. It was The Village Voice. And I think it was the role model for all folk alternative papers. I don\u2019t know what they have left.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read full obituary at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times 2 Veterans Leave Village Voice By\u00a0JEREMY W. PETERS What becomes of New York\u2019s most formidable muckraking paper when two of its greatest muckrakers are gone? The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative weeklies, which enlivened political and investigative journalism in New York through its scrappy, hold-nothing-sacred approach, has lost\u00a0Wayne Barrett\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}