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ColumbusMediaInsider: Editor Covers Own Interests, Not Readers'

A newspaper reporter friend told me that his paper's coverage policies were determined by the editor's interests rather than the readers' interests.


That could be a reason why newspapers are losing audience these days.


Dispatch…

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#FreeMasonique National Week of Action

A Coalition to #FreeMasonique is calling for a National Week of Action to draw attention to Masonique Saunders and has begun a calling campaign to Ron O’Brien asking him to drop the charges against her.Masonique has been sitting in Columbus’…

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We must end golf at the Newark Octagon Mound for Native Americans

Farmer-tanned golfers smoking cigars and swigging beer are gleefully swatting their ball in and around the Octagon Earthworks, built 2,000 years ago by Native Americans in what is now Newark.


The Octagon is arguably a massive lunar temple…

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In Memoriam: Charlie Einhorn

Columbus’ original beatnik and prime hippie #1 Charlie Einhorn passed into the cosmos in April 2019. So central was Charlie to Columbus’ budding counterculture of the 1960s is that the first headshop took its name from his musical instrument,…

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