The Voice of San Diego hates The San Diego Reader

You know a lot of people hate on The Reader, maybe because it's free and easy to pick up at any coffee shop (guess what I'm using as my mouse pad right now?) but there is always this or that comment about the crazy old reader and it's assorted craziness (or it's meandering writing style, but hey, I GET THAT).

Voice of San Diego is hating on The Reader.

If a publisher were to show such contempt for his readers, the final product might look a lot like the San Diego Reader. Editor and owner Jim Holman doesn’t seem to care about whether anyone actually reads the weekly newspaper he’s been publishing in San Diego for 35 years. Week after week, I pick up the Reader hoping to find something worth reading over a cup of coffee only to fling aside moments later in disappointment.

Oh SNAP!

And sure The Reader is as thick as a phone book, stuffed with classifieds and display ads that are much better reading than the text that wrap around them. I can have 3,000 hairs implanted in my balding noggin for only $2,499! A boob job for $4,200! And my droopy eyelids can be fixed in just 20 minutes!

But don't call Editor Jim Holman the next Anna Wintour, because unlike some fashionable, bob sporting, fur wearing mega editors, Homan is actually a devout Catholic who has given millions on parent-notification initiatives that seek to compel doctors to notify parents before performing abortions on minors. According to a 2006 profile in the Union-Tribune, Holman attends Mass every day, rides the bus to work and teaches Latin to home-schooled students.

This makes me love The Reader even more, because not only does the man sell his soul for a little boob job/ Asian Massage Ad loving, but he does it while educating home schooled kids and fighting for his Catholic rights.

I'm not gonna rag on him, because we all know what happens to people who mess with the Catholic Church and their alternative weekly editing disciples.