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Friday, September 30, 2011

It's John Wolfe's City, We Just Live In It



To borrow a phrase from the great Matt Taibbi, John Wolfe is like a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of Columbus, looking for the next thing he can suck the blood out of.

Wolfe is our own little mini-Murdoch. He and his Dispatch Printing Co. already own and operate the Columbus Dispatch, the This Week newspapers, local CBS affiliate WBNS 10TV, the ONN cable news station, radio stations WBNS-FM and WBNS-AM, and big chunk of the Arena Disrict.

Now comes the news that the Right Republican Mr. Wolfe and his minions are the new owners of the SNP Suburban News Publications weeklies, monthly magazines Columbus Monthly, Columbus C.E.O., and Columbus Bride, and -- here's the worst part -- The Other Paper.

Starting in 1990, The Other Paper was an independent free weekly "alternative" newspaper focused on arts, music, and local Columbus news. It maintained an irreverent, smart-ass style, and was also known for its very personal personal ads.

I speak of it in the past tense because things like this are not exactly the hallmarks of a John Wolfe publication. I can't imagine The Other Paper surviving in its current form as a Wolfe holding. Hope I'm wrong.
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