Someone in the first-floor window above the protest on Friday outside the LA Weekly’s Westside offices felt the need to put up a sign to clarify to those gathered below. “FYI We Are Not LA Weekly,” read the sheets of white paper. “This Is Vibe.”
Those who pasted it up smiled and waved for a minute down on the sidewalk of Sepulveda Boulevard.
It was a minor gesture of solidarity with about 50 former contributors, columnists, and supporters who gathered on Dec. 8 to stage a mock sidewalk “funeral” for the paper that they say is now more or less dead.
The investment group that bought the Weekly in October fired most of the editorial staff on Nov. 29. Then OC Weekly revealed that most of the known investors were from Orange County and linked to conservative groups or even Trump donations.