What They're Up Against
Only everyone and everything, pretty much.
The Scoop New York is a website and newsletter covering the movement for a true no-kill New York State, from BUF to BK. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.
The Scoop New York — the website, the newsletter, the non-profit — is my career-long ambition.
I got into journalism in the 1990s as a freelance music writer, mostly for what used to be called “alternative weeklies.” That term doesn’t mean as much today, not only because news travels instantly on paperless devices we carry in our pockets, but because in many cases the weeklies that managed to stay alive as the internet ate their ad revenue are no longer an “alternative” to anything, since the news outlets they historically competed with have gone extinct, or are on life support and will cease to be the minute the capital ghouls suck the bones dry.
