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...virtually every other underground newspaper in the country. And it is the absence of the war that has turned them into pallid imitations of what they once were, that has transformed underground into alternative. "I would choose to call the phoenix simply a metropolitan or urban weekly..." publisher Stephen Mindich writes in his tribute to the paper. That is the truth, and that is the problem...
...excesses (a very good story about the seamy business at an aerosol factory that ended with three workers dead). A lot of the writing is still tremendous, in some cases better than at the village Voice, the only more alternative paper in the country with a bigger reputation. But, Mindich again: "If the publication is to become and remain successful, it must speak to its readers about what they are interested in. If we didn't change as the times were changing, we would cease to exist...
Several less metaphysical factors helped drive the paper out of existence. Boston Phoenix publisher Stephen Mindich apparently decided long ago he wanted to put out the only alternative paper published in Boston. He succeeded, and now readers will get an unrelieved diet of his inanities (like the reprinted editorials from the New York Post that were the paper's comments on the Iraqi raid), along with some good writing by the more talented members of the regular staff. The richer Phoenix has done the same political fades as the Realp, but their bankroll has allowed them to keep the format...
...Phoenix, founded in 1969, was bought in 1972 by publisher Stephen M. Mindich, who merged it with the less politically-oriented Boston After Dark...
...picket line together--at the old Phoenix, where they once went on strike against publisher Richard Missner. Missner and the strikers settled after the paper was shut down for a week, but a couple of months later, in July 1972, Missner sold the Phoenix to rival publisher Stephen Mindich of Boston After Dark. Mindich wanted only the Phoenix name and a staff member of two; he bought the paper merely to squeeze out his competition. The abandoned Phoenix staff, consumed by equal measures of pique and principle, decided to start their own paper, the Real paper. The first issue appeared...