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I was the longest lasting original advertiser in the LA Weekly. We were in the Weekly from 1979 until i think my last ad was in 2005.

Being a reluctant capitalist ( I sure as hell did not want to work paycheck to paycheck for someone else and I really did hate having employees), the weekly seemed to be the right place for me to put my advertising dollars.

As the decayeds went by, my business model started to fade as did the relevance (business wise and personally) of the Weekly. After Judy left, I no longer felt any allegiance to the weekly, but I still would regularily pick up the paper.

This year, I started to notice a paradigm shift in the weekly. Except for Jonathon Gold, the rag is unreadable. Even the movie reviews have gotten to the point of a wingnut review of Moore’s latest.

But the problem that all you alumni overlook, is that the business model of all brick and mortar print enterprises are barely viable anymore.

The only way to provide a real livelihood for journalists is going to find some way to make the internet actually pay off. It is going to be a challenge, but like it or not, it is the future.

BTW, Marc, where on the internet may I currently find your writings?

Behind Ventura’s Letters at 3a.m. , you were the next byline I used to look for every week

Have you been blogging long? Dann Drinks Beer ” About is a great blog, you have a great writing style too. Found this post last Thursday and i’ve been reading your blog since. I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed and I am excited for more quality post…

I think I can pull rank on most people here. I’ve been reading the ‘Weekly’ since about the first issue, but I tell you, the last straw for me was when they got rid of Alan Rich last year. Never made any sense and I never picked it up again. And Judith Lewis, she was so good and so nice, and always responded to her e-mail, too.

About Jill Stewart, don’t forget that much of her popularity was the result of her constant TV appearances on Bill Maher’s program. And anyone else remember when she wrote that backpage LAT op-ed screed a few years ago, where she railed against the New Times/ Weekly buyoff deal, claiming that it was a dark day for independent journalism, etc. etc.?

She made sense — until you realized that this was the same Jill Stewart who was not only a now unemployed columnist for ‘New Times’ (a fact undisclosed to LAT readers) but was also clearly flacking for its parent company– the same one that just a few years earlier had bought out both ‘The Reader’ and ‘The Village View’ just so it could close them down to eliminate the competition (!) How many millions did Lacey pay for those well-regarded papers? Stewart left that little tidbit out of her LAT piece and for good reason, too.

Well, so good luck former Weekly staff, but is there a reason why no one here has mentioned Harold Meyerson? He was a big part of the paper’s appeal and a good example of what a nice showcase it was for so many years.