You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.