Reinstate Chuck Eddy as Village Voice music editor

To:  Michael Lacey and Andy Van De Voorde, Village Voice Media

We the undersigned, consisting of music publicists, music people and Village Voice readers, hereby request the reinstatement of Chuck Eddy as music editor of the Village Voice. The official reason given for his termination was “reasons of taste.” Seeing as Mr. Eddy did his job and did it with efficiency, intelligence, character and humor, to say nothing of -good- taste, we find the grounds for his dismissal unreasonable bordering on incomprehensible and ask that he be restored to the position he has occupied for the last seven years.

Village Voice senior editor and rock critic Robert Christgau said of Eddy, “There have been many good music editors, but Chuck Eddy was the most efficient, most professional I worked with. He was fabulous to work with. He was the only editor who got his sections in not on time, but ahead of time. He was so easy to work with. He was great.”

Since Village Voice Media assumed control of the Voice in November, Chuck is the 17th employee to leave the paper, either by resignation or termination. It is clear that the Voice is being forced to change in ways that are rendering it indistinguishable from every other weekly in the country. Chuck had been writing for the Voice since 1984 and it was voices like his that made it the paper what it was. Their loss is our loss.


Mark Gorney – Worldisc (www.worldisc.net)
Josh Mills – It’s Alive Media (www.itsalivemedia.com)
Regina Joskow – Verve Music Group (www.vervemusicgroup.com)

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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