Save Tom Tomorrow!
By on Jan 6th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Save Tom Tomorrow!
Progressive cartoonist Tom Tomorrow was recently dropped from the print edition of the Village Voice newspaper. He’s asked readers to sign a petition respectfully requesting that the Voice reconsider its decision. Sign the petition HERE. More details HERE (and check out Tom’s latest comic HERE).
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what conglomeration now owns the village voice?
January 6th, 2007 at 12:09 pmit just doesn’t make any sense to drop tom tomorrow… unless…
What’s going on? Are the powers that be afraid of something?
January 6th, 2007 at 12:11 pmthe petition reads:
January 6th, 2007 at 12:13 pmAs readers of the print edition of the Village Voice…
but i’m not… however, i would like to help the cause…
guess i could fib… now it’s out… sometimes i fib…
Nonsense, halbert. There are plenty of posts where you have typed in both upper and lower case. (Here’s one.) If you can hit any of they keys, you can hit the caps lock key and turn it off. I believe that you post in all caps just be annoying. (And while you obviously copied and pasted most of that comment, there was plenty on there that you typed in upper and lower case yourself. You CAN do it, you just choose not to.)
January 6th, 2007 at 12:37 pmGod never set you free.
Comment by GOTFREEDUMB?
We atheists here agree.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:38 pmRupert Murdoch must have bought the Village Voice.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:35 pmWayne A. Schneider, Halbert Holmert doesn’t have to type in all caps to be annoying. He accomplishes that quite well with just his regular “arguments”…
January 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm[...]
In the 50th [anniversary issue], there is a piece by Jarrett Murphy tracking the checkered history of Voice ownership. They are all in there, from Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher, who along with [Norman] Mailer spent $10,000 to open the paper in a second-floor office at 22 Greenwich Avenue. Wolf sold it to Kennedy pal Carter Burden, who sold it to Clay Felker, the founder of New York Magazine. Felker [...] lost the place to Rupert Murdoch, the penultimate bigger fish who knew not to mess with a moneymaker no matter what anti-Republican swill it published. After that came Leonard Stern, the pet-food magnate, who paid an unthinkable $55 million in 1985. By 2000, Stern sold out to a consortium of faceless bankers and lawyers for $170 million. Now there was [Michael] Lacey, almost certainly the only Voice owner to get his kicks from revving his mustard yellow Mustang Cobra past 100 while cruising the Navajo Reservation.
Actually, Lacey[...], his longtime partner, Jim Larkin, and their New Times Media corporation weren’t exactly taking over completely. They were merging with Village Voice Media, which includes the Voice and five other “alternative†newspapers, most notably the L.A. Weekly.
[...]
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14987/
from links found at wik!…
January 6th, 2007 at 2:15 pmI don’t get it. The Voice is one of the most leftist rags in NYC. The decision might not be political in nature. Maybe they want a change. Imagine that, a progressive newspaper wants change…
Maybe they want a different cartoon strip. Maybe they more space for those lucrative and saucy Escort ads…
January 6th, 2007 at 2:26 pm#15 halbert holmert
If you’d ever read the Village Voice, you’d realize that Tom Tomorrow was about the tamest thing in it. Grab a copy and check it out. The ads in there will probably curl your hair. Or they might be right up your alley. Who knows?
And, please file that lawsuit. I can’t wait to see you having to prove that you’re disabled (physically, that is).
January 6th, 2007 at 5:49 pmYOU PAGANS OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES EVEN MORE THAN YOU ALREADY NATURALLY ARE
Jesus was trained by the magi Holmert. And they hid him from King Herod. Is not magic but methods unlearned?
Science, today, as in the computer your using, would have been considered Pagan, or Satanic, yet you use it daily.
And if Jesus used magi (knowledge of Astronomy) would that be Pagan? or was he just using methods we only now understand today as physics or science?
Tom tommorow only gives his opinion, as you do Halbert.
January 6th, 2007 at 6:20 pmOpinions are not facts.
I AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS ARE REJOICING TODAY IN THE SPIRIT OF GODS POWER TO SLAY SUCH THOUGHT FROM FORMATIVE MINDS
If Jesus were here today, what would he make of your use of electronics? Yet the ministries use television, magic, to spread their word? You are not using your God, Jesus, given mind Halbert.
January 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pmThe Village Voice was taken over by a “Libertarian” (read cowardly Republican). Ever since, it has slid downhill becoming a celebrity entertainment rag with no redeeming value.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:45 pmLast I checked The Funny Times still carries him. Here is where you can get a subscription: http://www.funnytimes.com/
January 6th, 2007 at 8:56 pmYou can find Tom Tomorrow as well as Ted Rall, Matt Wuerker and columnists such as Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins and other plutocrat pluckers in [The Progressive Populist http://www.populist.com, a twice-monthly tabloid. Support progressive media while you still can!
January 6th, 2007 at 10:25 pmyes, we agree, save tom tomorrow, but another, more egregious battle is that of mickey vs. spocko…disney lawyers have convinced the isp of spocko, a blogger of some note, to shut his blog down.
disney’s lawyers claim spocko is using clips from their station in sanfran, ksfo, w/o permission. however, spocko posted said clips in a fair use doctrine usage, as examples of the vile hate speech that the hard right wing local pundits spew daily (ie, attaching car battery terminals to a black man’s testicles, targeting dem congress people for assasination if they vote for amnesty for illegal aliens, calling barack obama a “half-rican american” because his mom is white, etc).
disney is mad because spocko sent transcripts of said hateful speech to ksfo’s advertisers…and successfully got big corporations like visa and mastercard to pull their advertising from the station.
spocko has no $$ and is fighting an uphill battle. but you can help. read mike stark’s account of the battle, and for more detailed info, read skippy (also check skippy’s photoshop rendition).
January 6th, 2007 at 10:41 pmI’ll save Tom,Tomorrow.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:04 amI’ll save Tom;tomorrow.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:09 am