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Topic: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Topic: I have to get OCF's take on this!

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Bobcat36
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I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 1:06:57 PM

Headline:

Dispatch Printing Company acquires Columbus Monthly, other local niche publications

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2011/09/27/dispatch-acquires-niche-publications.html

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OhioCatFan
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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 1:25:01 PM

Kind of pressed for time right now, but my gut reaction is that the Columbus media are now going to be even more a "one horse town." This is not a good day for Central Ohio journalism, but not as devastating a one as the day that the Wolfes gobbled up the Columbus Citizen-Journal. Perhaps, it's time to just rename Columbus, Wofleville, and acknowledge the truth up front.

Last Edited: 9/29/2011 10:36:31 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 3:37:16 PM

I will be stunned if The Other Paper survives this. Terrible. Can someone sue to try and prevent this?

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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 4:07:13 PM

Agreed. I've always enjoyed The Other Paper's challenges to the Dispatch's viewpoints/agendas.

My first job out of Ohio University was with Suburban News Publication, which publishes several community weekly newspapers in Central Ohio, The Other Paper, Columbus Monthly and others. . . I was shocked to see the Dispatch gobble up all of these publications and have to believe the weekly newspapers are on thin ice with the Dispatch already putting out weekly community papers of its own every Sunday. The Other Paper probably doesn't have much of a life left either with the Dispatch already publishing Columbus Alive, a weekly very similar to The Other Paper.

Not good news for readers who enjoy a viewpoint different than the Wolfes'.

Last Edited: 9/29/2011 4:08:04 PM by bobcatsquared

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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 4:40:13 PM

JSF wrote:

I will be stunned if The Other Paper survives this. Terrible. Can someone sue to try and prevent this?

Don't think so. I agree with you though, I think the only way The Other Paper survives is if this is just a purchase-and-leave-it-alone arrangement, which I doubt.

Even if the paper is allowed to operate pretty much autonomously, I still think they'll see a drop in their circulation numbers simply because they're owned by "The Man."

If (and this is the far more likely scenario in my eyes), the paper is changed in a meaningful way, whether dramatically or slowly over time, I don't envision it being around too many more years. That would be a real shame.

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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 10:49:58 PM

JSF, I don't see any legal basis for a suit. Doesn't mean someone couldn't try.

I think that this is sad in that there will be only one viewpoint, for all practically purposes, in Cowtown print journalism now. It's kind of like Athens in the opposite direction. We've got three papers in town (including The Post), and most of the time they range in their editorial opinions from liberal, to more liberal to used-to-be-a-hippie liberal. Once in awhile, The Post gets an editor who changes the viewpoint at that paper, but it usually doesn't last too long. They also have some more traditionalist column writers every now and again. I'm really for diversity of opinion and ideas. That's why I listen to CNN, FNC, and for brief periods of time I even try now and then to stomach MSNBC. I wish I had something local to balance the leftest troika that we are blessed with in our community of learning.

Last Edited: 9/29/2011 11:07:09 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/29/2011 11:58:15 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

That's why I listen to CNN, FNC, and for brief periods of time I even try now and then to stomach MSNBC.

My honest recommendation and challenge is that you turn them all off. They're all clowns wearing differently-colored suits. (Honestly, what is CNN even trying to do anymore?) Corporate-owned media is one of the poisons slowly bringing this country down. Go and find independent journalism you respect.

Bobcatbob
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RE: I have to get OCF's take on this!

Posted: 9/30/2011 8:26:19 AM

anorris wrote:

JSF wrote:

I will be stunned if The Other Paper survives this. Terrible. Can someone sue to try and prevent this?

Columbus Alive was once a semi-independent rival to TOP, rising, but not a serious threat. The Dispatch bought that and turned it into a mid-week fish wrapper chock full of ads and regurgitated slop from local bars and restaurants.

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