Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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lakeerietransplant said:
No one wants more of that crap. Alive, 614, and that red magazine (C Weekly) does enough of that.I may not have agreed with the political views espoused by the old Alive (or what the old TOP used to write), but I'd rather have that than ANOTHER entertainment/art paper.
I didn't say anyone *wanted* it. Just that I could see it going in that direction.
Rockmastermike
CORNspiracy HQ
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I wonder if I should go through old CU posts and see how many people (if any) have gone from arguing that the Other Paper and other 'old media' or 'dead tree' sources were increasingly irrelevant to now loudly decrying the death of the Other Paper...
drewtoothpaste
upper arlington
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I wish there were some kind of way we could get information WITHOUT using printed papers or magazines.
Some kind of... computer network that was inter-linked with all the other computer networks. We could call it... Inter-compu Net-link.
Rockmastermike
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drewtoothpaste said:
I wish there were some kind of way we could get information WITHOUT using printed papers or magazines.Some kind of... computer network that was inter-linked with all the other computer networks. We could call it... Inter-compu Net-link.
Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net!
lakeerietransplant
On the outskirts of Yuppieville (Weinland Park)
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consular ship
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CU being bought by the Dispatch would make a great April Fool's joke.
sirlancelot
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The consolidation and merger of print media has been ongoing for years now. Columbus is no exception. If you people wanted a print alternative to the Dispatch, you should have supported it and the advertisers. We call this profit. A majority of people today get the news from either broadcast or on-line media. The specialised and tailored nature of on-line news media today makes their objectivity suspect. The people who are hurt the most are those without home internet access.
TomP301
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Pablo said:
Who's going to make fun of the Dispatch now?
Exactly. I almost choked when I read about this sale. I honestly would have rather seen CM and OP go under than be "rescued" by the self-styled "Mother Paper," whose editorials I read when I feel I've been a bad boy and deserve some self-flagellation. Actually, I never expected CM/OP/SNP to last much longer, but going to the Wolfes is like Little Red Riding Hood being rescued by...wolfs.
OTOH, is it just me or has CM gradually shed all vestiges of its legendary aura of disdain for the Distort over the past few years -- for whatever reason (and I have multiple theories)?
TomP301
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groundrules
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Dicks just raised their rates too.
Aaron Marshall
South Side Wrecking Crew
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TomP301
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It will be fascinating to see if the many portions of the CM archive that deal in criticism and speculation concerning the Wolfes and the Wolfe empire "conveniently" go away now. Bet they do. Maybe the issue headlined "A Death in the Morning" (how the Dispatch killed off the Citizen-Journal) will disappear in its entirety. Or how about all that "Top Power Brokers" stuff, or the unflattering accounts of John W Wolfe's hard-nosed, revenge-filled involvement in local politics? We've seen that the Dispatch has a strict policy against anything other than PR-type discussion of their business dealings and family gossip. If I'm wrong and they keep all of this readily available, I'll be surprised and it will also increase my respect for the Dispatch.
sirlancelot
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What I find dismaying is the reduction of local news coverage. Without alternative media reporting, how do citizens know what happens in their own communities? The fact is that all media, print, broadcast and on-line, rely on profits to exist. The few "free" newspapers still in Columbus rely on advertising. That's where you and I come in.
People should compare what our newspapers looked like 30 years ago versus now. More pictures and pretty graphics now, less news. More local news then. Who is better informed?
Perhaps things would not be so bleak if local radio broadcasters such as WTVN had not reduced their local news coverage. I also think local news coverage by tv stations is inadequate. People accuse the news media of being slanted and that will certainly be true if no alternatives exist.
The Dispatch used to run, as a community service, a complete death list and basic funeral info. Many people cannot afford to run a paid newspaper obituary. If the Dispatch prints a free listing of births and marriages, why not deaths? The paper used to publish all crime reports. We are now left to look up such info via the internet. This is not journalism, it is laziness.
Not only do we have less local print news coverage, media such as The Dispatch (some years back) outsource what were production jobs (editing, proofing, design and so on) elsewhere, such as India. Similar to what law firms now do with legal research and writing.
Meanwhile, what people can do is to hold local news media accountable. We can demand more local and fair news coverage. Then, there are the advertisers. If the advertisers demand better news coverage, the media will respond. Yes, we have the internet, but would you depend on Facebook or Twitter alone for your local news?
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