Satirical 'Ask A Mexican' column to end after decade run

[TexasTowelie]

ALBUQUERQUE - The “Ask A Mexican” column, a satirical weekly installment about U.S. Latinos that once ran in more than three dozen alternative weekly newspapers across the country, is coming to an end.

The column’s founder, Gustavo Arellano, told The Associated Press on Monday that the final version of the humorous installment will appear online for Albuquerque’s Weekly Alibi. The column will not appear in the OC Weekly of Fountain Valley, California, a publication where the column began, he said.

The move comes after Arellano resigned from the OC Weekly this month after he refused a request by newspaper’s owner, Duncan McIntosh, to layoff half of the publication’s staff.

Arellano says the OC Weekly owns the column and he has rejected an offer to continue it as a contractor.

Read more: http://www.currentargus.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2017/10/23/satirical-ask-mexican-column-end-after-decade-run/792170001/

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1. That's too bad. No, not the end of the column itself but Arellano resignation

and the request to layoff so many people.

This is the fate of print journalism. The OC Weekly, of course, is or was, part of the publications by Village Voice which had to shed many local publications some 10 years ago.

And Now I found that the Village Voice itself is going to cease print publication. And that it was sold to an owner of a PA paper last October.

I am glad that we still read two print newspapers each day.