Step On Your Face -

and grind his heel
into your mouth to shut you up . . .

SF Weekly and Bay Guardian settle their
differences 'on mutually acceptable terms,'
although the details are not being disclosed.

The VVM Machine (aka New Times Media) has learned nothing. In their summation statement they are still touting how many more readers they have compared to the Bay Guardian. They are incorrigible bullies and incurable sociopaths. Their statement willfully disregards what the judge told them.

When this case started, I had a mild aversion to Michael Lacey. At the end of this rather lengthy legal process, I now intensely loath him and view him as one of the most evil men in the United States.

Has the Public gained anything from this legal process. I believe so. The Public now has a much more clarity about what the entity known as Village Voice Media actually is and how they operate. VVM is essentially an advertising machine. The multiple weekly publications are illusory satellites with VVM as the glue.

The very same characteristic that makes VVM practically judgement-proof also provides a disincentive to ever improving the quality of their product, making them an Infernal Machine that can only move in an ever downward spiral.

Any object that is not prodded, poked or pushed in a particular direction is subject to entropy, drag, and degradation.

It's like a weekly injection of raw sewage into Society.

NB: Part 2 follows . . .

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