Three weeks after Manhattan Media bought the New York Press and declared that, unlike New York Magazine and the Village Voice, the paper would no longer print sex ads in its classified section, Voice editor Tony Ortega fired back by defiantly running eight naked ladies on the cover of his August 22nd issue.
The cover was Mr. In a phone interview today, he said he intended it as a playful response to criticism the Voice had been fielding recently for continuing to run ads for escort services and massage parlors in its classified section.
Ortega said later, in an e-mail. That message went unspoken, however, as the cover was not accompanied by an article inside the paper or addressed in any way. I was flattered that they thought that a decision we made warranted a Voice cover. Suddenly I work with a lot of straight white dudes. It just has a different tenor when you have a cover like this. The employee said that several staff members had expressed dismay at the cover, and that Mr. Ortega brought up the issue at an editorial meeting Monday.
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