Dispatch Printing Company acquires Columbus Monthly, other local niche publications

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. 

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'.

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.   

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.