Nat Hentoff has a great column in this week's Village Voice taking apart the theory, put forward by Michael Medved and others, that Jews are themselves to blame for all the "Passion of the Christ" controversy, just by virtue of their complaining. Hentoff is old enough to know what it's like to be beat up because of things Father Coughlin said, and as often he's got a great perspective that's not dependent on ideology.
I'm much less impressed, however, with the Voice's latest re-design, which screws their best writer, Hentoff, in two ways: it gives his formerly self-titled column a high school paper-caliber name, "Liberty Beat," and consigns Ted Rall's weekly cartoon to the bottom of his page. Yuk. Rall isn't even worthy to carry Hentoff's notebook, let alone appear on the same newspaper page.
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 18, 2004 11:02 PMHi,
I edit a new blog on print design and was wondering if you would have time to scan the old an new version of the Voice, to include in a blog post. I would quote this post.
Let me know what you think by email.
Thank you for your time and help.
the blog will be launching early next week.