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:The Village Voice is now managed by two libertarians from Phoenix, Arizona. They merged New Times with Village Voice Media, they took the name, Village Voice Media, but the controlling party are these two from Phoenix. They came to town, they fired veterans, they imposed conditions that were so difficult for others that they resigned, they lost an editor. In the view of many veterans at the Voice, they crushed the spirits of the newspaper and tried to impose a style whose fit for the city remains open to question. For example, many people at the Voice were concerned that there was a political purge ... in my view that's not very alternative at all.
:The Village Voice is now managed by two libertarians from Phoenix, Arizona. They merged New Times with Village Voice Media, they took the name, Village Voice Media, but the controlling party are these two from Phoenix. They came to town, they fired veterans, they imposed conditions that were so difficult for others that they resigned, they lost an editor. In the view of many veterans at the Voice, they crushed the spirits of the newspaper and tried to impose a style whose fit for the city remains open to question. For example, many people at the Voice were concerned that there was a political purge ... in my view that's not very alternative at all.
==Involvement in child sex trafficking==
Village Voice Media has come under fire following number of arrests for child prostitution were associated with Village Voice owned website backpage.com, and advertising site for "call girls" and "escorts." Underage girls were advertising their "services" on the website.<ref>http://www.newschannel5.com/story/13072226/man-two-teen-girls-arrested-in-prostitution-sting?redirected=true</ref><ref>http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/08/19/6-charged-with-child-prostitution/UPI-94681282275026/</ref><ref>http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=93236</ref> In 2010 one of the victims filed a lawsuit against Village Voice alleging that they aided and abetted forced prostitution, and that they had strong suspicions of illegal activity present on their site.<ref>http://ia600505.us.archive.org/3/items/gov.uscourts.moed.108973/gov.uscourts.moed.108973.1.0.pdf</ref> A petition was started by Groundswell, a human rights group, to get Village Voice Media to close backpage.con and to cease providing a platform for sex trafficking of youths.<ref>http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-village-voice-media-to-stop-child-sex-trafficking-on-backpagecom</ref> Operation Broken Silence, an anti-slavery group, released reports in conjunction with the Imagine Foundation, an anti-child slavery group discussing the culpability of backpage.com and the impact of its operations in Northeast Ohio and the area surrounding Memphis, Tenessee.<ref>http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Cleveland-Report-Final-Release1.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/downloads/OBS-Backpage-Report.pdf</ref>
==See Also==
==See Also==
*[[Dan Savage]], journalist and columnist for Village Voice's newspaper ''The Stranger''.
*[[Dan Savage]], journalist and columnist for Village Voice's newspaper ''The Stranger''.