Last week in the Village Voice, gay scribe Michael K. Lavers claimed gay print media was dying, which is true in one sense (gay media companies have been folding in sizable numbers), but the claim wasn’t exactly backed up by hard data from, say, the National Newspaper Association.
Today the Washington Blade‘s Kevin Naff (pictured)– who, it must be noted, has done an admirable job keeping that newspaper afloat and poignant, and has an obvious hand in the debate — issues a rebuttal, saying not only is Lavers way off, he failed to disclose some pretty obvious conflicts of interest, like Lavers’ “work for Edge Media Network, a company he describes as ‘fast becoming the new gay press establishment,’ a grandiose claim he offers no evidence to support. He also conveniently omits the fact that one of Edge’s senior executives, William Kapfer, was an officer of Window Media, the Blade’s former parent company that is criticized in the story. It sounds like Kapfer, an Edge marketer, wrote the story for Lavers.” Now somebody tell me what a blog is again.
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Its certainly a fact that Gay print media is dying…….Exact same thing that is happening to straight, black, asian, hindu, eskimo, and any other type of print media….It seems this new fangled thing called the internets just maybe be gaining some traction…………..
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PS: Wanna know why? Was listening to an interview with Barbra Cochren operator of a major real estate firm in NYC. She said that prior to the internets her cost thru traditional ads in newspapers to secure a potential customer was $260.00. With the internets it now costs here 8 cents!………..
Cali
Zionism is dying. Stop supporting Israel war criminals.
Acorn
Lavers article is a lot like an essay on Bryan Highland’s 1962 breezy summer hit, Sealed with a Kiss, it is nostalgia for something that had its time. Print is not dead, it is waiting for its reinvention.
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Qjersey
Consolidation of ownership of print media by corporate pigs who paid themselves and drove the newspapers and magazines into the ground is what happened.
Gays have gone mainstream.
JanetD
And the issue here? The Washington Blade is so above having to react to such stories — this make Kevin N. look a real fool. Start focusing on stories that matter, Kevin. Is life that bad in the gay media that you have to invest your time in being a cry-baby?