Big weekend news in media: the Seattle Weekly’s corporate overlords (Village Voice Media) was just sold to the country’s largest alt-weekly franchise (New Times Media) [nyt]. Predictably, the Stranger is already using the sale as an occasion for boasting and figurative stone throwing [slog].

While the Village Voice’s layout won’t be adopting the New Times template, it sounds like the look of the other members of the Village Voice Media family will be standardized and the local political editorial content will be stripped to fit the new owner’s apolitical mold. What do you think? Is media consolidation still a bummer when it’s two chains getting hitched?

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