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CAPITAL & MAIN-The last two decades have seen the downsizing or demise of countless American print media outlets, leaving many of us resigned at reports of the latest corporate consolidation or private equity takeover of a beloved publication.
Though I unhappily count myself among the jaded, one precursor to the 21st century erosion of the Fourth Estate still carries a particular sting and important lessons for our time.
In June 1996, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin swaggered into a small newsroom in West Los Angeles where a group of journalists had gathered for what they expected to be a living wake for their paper. Starting in Arizona in the 1970s, the two men had built the largest chain of alternative weeklies in the U.S. through a series of aggressive acquisitions. Though the founders of New Times tried halfheartedly to put lipstick on a pig with reassurances about their intentions, the staff’s worst fears were soon confirmed.
Ed Ward at his home in South Austin on Nov. 14, 2019 (Photo by John Anderson)
In 1964, when the New Yorker (born Nov. 2, 1948) began scribbling prose for mimeographed folk fanzine
Broadside at the age of 16, rock & roll ranked right up there with newsprint at the bottom of the birdcage or litter pan: utterly disposable.
Teen Beat and
16 ruled the day with “fab pix and fax,” but Ward lit out for an entirely unexplored musical universe the moment Bob Dylan strapped on a Fender Stratocaster and hired young white Chicagoan Mike Bloomfield to issue slashing, bluesy voltage across his new records.
Ward turned toward another mimeographed rag published out of “an apartment above a Greek deli on Sixth Avenue,” he told me in a 2019 interview. Helmed by 18-year-old music obsessive Paul Williams,