Why The Village Voice Rocks and WikiPedia Sucks. How Journalism is Supposed to Work.

The problem with history is, it's written by the winners.

What that inevitably means is the person or group with the most resources can squash, with impunity, them that are "without portfolio"; as they say in polite circles.

I'll admit I'm an iconoclast. There is not one icon or false idol that I don't want to see wrecked beyond repair. Not because they are inherently blasphemous. But because, in the end, icons and idols only serve to separate us from our true selves.

Those with political and monetary wealth (the winners in other words) set themselves up as idols. They cultivate a smooth, polished surface. A gloss of perfection and competence. That is what their money buys them.

And 9 times out of 10 the corruption that lies beneath will never see the light of day. The pit dwellers, the poor, those who never had a chance in the game of sperm and egg roulette, live their lives without the protective cocoon money affords the wealthy.

Daughter Linda and Daddy Bruce

When an average man seduces his grown daughter over the course of many years and is found out, his life becomes a circus. That is, unless he is isn't average. If, for instance, he is obscenely wealthy. Then he possesses the means to buy off and bully news outlets and "neutral" sources like Wikipedia. Make them eat their shit smeared "standards" and give thanks afterward that they were allowed to do so.

But you may want to thank whatever gods exist that there are still some who will not be bullied. People who think that the word ethics actually means something.

From Tony Ortega, editor in chief of the Village Voice: MEMO TO BRUCE McMAHAN, DAUGHTER-SEDUCER (UPDATED)