Village Voice: Wayne Barrett Let Go, Tom Robbins Quits

YankeeFan · Jan 4, 2011

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/barrett-robbins-out-at-village-voice/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Wayne's final column:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/01/wayne_barrett_t_2.php

They might as well fold up shop.

They've just lost the only two reasons to read that rag.

ifilus · Jan 4, 2011

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/81368/

YankeeFan · Jan 5, 2011

ifilus said:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/81368/
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Well that explains why this thread got no love.

I saw the headline of the other thread, but never clicked on it. Had no idea it was about this.

shockey · Jan 6, 2011

i'm embarrassed to admit i don't know for sure, but does anyone know if tom robbins is the same tom robbins who worked for the n.y. daily news in the late '80s-early 90s? i've googled him and still can't figure it out...

anyway, if it isn't the same tom robbins, they not only share the same name but also the same ideals. the tom robbins of the daily news was among the most respected and intelligent reporters whose quiet, dignified leadership during the '90-'91 strike helped give me strength during those frantic, confusing months.

if this is the same tom robbins, i am not at all surprised to learn his reaction to barrett's dismissal was to join him as an ex-village voicer.

Boom_70 · Jan 6, 2011

Makes sense since Barrett's WWE career is taking off. Guess he is going to devote his time to NEXUS.

YankeeFan · Jan 7, 2011

Good week for the Voice:

Freelance writer Rob Sgobbo's article "For-Profit Blues" was removed from the website after the Voice learned that Sgobbo had invented a character, "Tamicka Bourges," who claimed she had amassed a large debt at Berkeley College without obtaining a degree.

We first learned that there might be a problem when Berkeley College denied that one of its spokespersons, Kelly Meisberger, had spoken to Sgobbo. Berkeley later added that it had no record of Bourges as a student. At about the same time, the GAO called to inform us that there was no spokesperson there named "Matt Fraser," whom the story quoted.

The Voice apologizes sincerely to Berkeley College and the GAO that this false material appeared in our education supplement.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-01-05/news/for-profit-blues/
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YankeeFan · Jan 24, 2011

Looks like someone is still bitter about being sent to jail thanks to Tom Robbins' reporting:

The end of an era has definitely arrived in the seedy underbelly of sleaze journalism in New York. For nearly forty years four journalists represented all that was wrong with journalism in New York City. They were holdovers from a liberal era long since repudiated by history and the electorate. An era they longed to revisit and could never recover from its end. They fashioned themselves muckrakers in the grandest and noblest tradition. But they were never heirs to Tarbell or Sinclair. Rather, they practiced the dark arts of journalism.

Jack Newfield, Joe Conason, Wayne Barrett and later Tom Robbins were all at various points in their careers investigative reporters for the Village Voice. Newfield had a varied career that balanced his years at the Voice. Conason sought to rehabilitate himself and put distance between the years slinging sleaze and now working at Salon. Only Barrett and Robbins clung to the hard, hard left views of their youth. Moreover, they attempted to eviscerate anyone on the left who veered from the Stalinist orthodoxy of 60's radicalism. They longed for a return of the Nixon presidency so they could march for his impeachment. They longed for the Vietnam War so they could march for its end. And they longed for Ronald Reagan so they could march against, well just about everything the man stood for. And they viscerally hate Barack Obama because in their view he has no appreciation of what his forbears struggled for in the 50's, 60's and 70's and therefore compromises on issues of conscience too readily. In essence, black man gone soft.

Yesterday Barrett, the Voice's six figured reporter, was finally shown the door. And we are lead to believe that Robbins resigned in sympathy (I'm assuming this was a save face agreement worked out by all parties). Barrett's farewell letter in the Voice demonstrates once again the preening narcassim of the hard left. New York will survive without Wayne Barrett. Reporting will continue. The sun will come up over City Hall and the NY Post and the NY Daily News will continue to run investigative pieces.

http://rudyveritas.com/
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YankeeFan · Jan 31, 2011

Wayne has a new job:

Wayne Barrett, a former Village Voice investigative reporter, and Peter J. Boyer, a writer for The New Yorker, have agreed to join Ms. Brown, a Daily Beast spokesman said. Mr. Barrett will be a special contributor for investigative reporting. Mr. Boyer will be senior correspondent for news and politics.

Mr. Barrett, an outsize figure in New York City political journalism, was let go from The Voice late last year as a cost-cutting measure. He had been there nearly 40 years.
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