Well, that was anticlimactic. The word inside the PW offices is whatever possible deal was on the table is now dead.
“There’s nothing happening,” PW owner Anthony Clifton said when asked about rumors of a potential PW sale. Clifton was largely absent from the office for several weeks after rumors of a possible sale were first reported, but has returned to his normal schedule.

So without further ado, we present our very long-in-coming retraction. It is as follows…
… after the jump.

We here at Philebrity regret that we inadvertently published what has turned out to be false information regarding the sale of the Philadelphia Weekly to Village Voice Media. We initially published, based on what we believed to be a credible tip from a knowledgable source, that a deal was on the table between the two parties. What we could not have predicted and did not know at the time was how far up the corporate ladder the Weekly’s ineffectual, incompetent malaise stretched; we could have never known that at whatever key moment, the Weekly brass would have blinked and soured whatever deals they did have so that one by one, VVM, Tierney and whoever else would have woken the fuck up and said, “WHAT? 25 MILLION? FOR THIS? OR IS IT $10 MILLION! YOU KNOW WHAT? WE DON’T CARE! BACK TO THE YACHT, BENSON!”
Again, Philebrity regrets the error and any confusion or wishful thinking it may have caused. Our committment to our readers — and to pass along to them the best of what we know — remains strong, and we enjoy y’all’s company very much. Thank you.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 11:57 am.