Vice closes Quebec office
Vice, which some may recall got its start as a free weekly paper in Montreal, has closed its Quebec office to focus more on Toronto. Global calls the initial Vice paper a Canadian magazine but originally it was a rag.
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Marc 12:31 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
Originally called the Voice of Montreal (until the Village Voice complained?) The first issue had NDG rap group Shades of Culture on the cover and was a newspaper style like the Mirror, Hour, Cult, etc. Vice was really ahead of it’s time, I see their influence, for better or for worse, everywhere in journalism now.
Kate 14:15 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
Right, I had a faint memory of the Voice/Vice affair too.
Rafael 18:59 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
Village Voice never complained about this paper’s name. That’s a known fabrication. The style was a direct copy of The Mirror, which was a direct copy of other “irreverent” publications before it. It’s now Rupert Murdoch’s toy to attempt to gain a foothold to a youth demographic.
Kate 09:25 on 2019-06-23 Permalink
So why did the name get changed, Rafael?
Michael Black 09:36 on 2019-06-23 Permalink
Maybe they just wanted to appear controversial, hence an imaginary spat with the Village Voice, which was underground to begin with but long a more mainstream compared to more recent “underground”.
My real memory of Vice is they had a lot of near named photos and adds. A pure when I don’t remember contents being too interesting. All those American Apparel ads seem connected to the paper’s early days.
Michael