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(49,044 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 12:35 PM Jun 2020

Six months later found out that the OC Weekly ended up publication

And even before the virus.

One more sad commentary about the demise of print media.


(snip)

The newsweekly, which was founded in 1995, had been offloaded from Voice Media Group to local publisher Duncan McIntosh in 2016. The next year, OC Weekly’s editor Gustavo Arellano, who is now a features writer for The Times, very publicly resigned.

Arellano, who had long served as the public face of the outlet, said that he had quit rather cut half the paper’s staff, which he said he had been asked to do. But even in its reduced form, OC Weekly remained the leading alternative voice in the region. And the digging that previously exposed misconduct at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office continued.

More than anything, it held a mirror to the culture, chaos and complexities of a metropolitan area that is home to more than 3 million people and has been majority-minority since 2004. Theirs was not the Orange County of Nixon or Newport, or even the place reflected in the Orange County Register.

“The OC Register was always a chronicler of the official Orange County: White, rich, Republican, suburban,” said Arellano, who is himself an Orange County native. “The OC Weekly was a chronicler of everything else. And really, the freaks and geeks, which in this case is the Mexicans, the Muslims, the Vietnamese, the young people, the LGBT folks — all of these communities that did not ‘belong’ in Orange County according to its lords — found a home in the pages of the OC Weekly.”

More..


https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-08/column-why-the-death-of-oc-weekly-matters

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Six months later found out that the OC Weekly ended up publication (Original Post) question everything Jun 2020 OP
You found out six months after they stopped publishing? jimfields33 Jun 2020 #1
Yes. I left OC almost 20 years ago, but when I lived there it was a must read question everything Jun 2020 #2
It is ashame that media is changing especially print jimfields33 Jun 2020 #3

question everything

(49,044 posts)
2. Yes. I left OC almost 20 years ago, but when I lived there it was a must read
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jun 2020

and a partner in several local battles. I knew several of the writers and on occasions provided material, even after I left.

But I slowly lost touch, the local stories no longer mattered to me.


jimfields33

(19,281 posts)
3. It is ashame that media is changing especially print
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:24 PM
Jun 2020

Hopefully an online version will show up someday.

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