the other paper sold

[jimotis4heisman]

http://dispatch.com/dispatch/content/business/stories/2007/04/30/cmmedia.html

'Other Paper' parent sold to Dallas company

Monday, April 30, 2007 6:02 PM
By Denise Trowbridge and Paul Wilson


COLUMBUS DISPATCH

CM Media Inc., which owns The Other Paper and several other central Ohio publications, has been sold to American Community Newspapers of Dallas. In a memo today, CM President Max Brown thanked employees and told them representatives of their new employer would answer questions Tuesday.
?After much deliberation, our family has decided to sell the publishing and printing operations of CM Media,? Brown said in the memo, copies of which were obtained by The Dispatch.
Brown didn't mention terms of the deal in the memo and did not return a phone call late today from the The Dispatc

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[Sky]

http://dispatch.com/dispatch/content/business/stories/2007/04/30/cmmedia.html

Do any of you guys ever read that paper?

 

[jimotis4heisman]

i do.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

I read it a few times.

Each time it was pretty anti-OSU.

I especially remember before the scUM football game. The guy was saying that Ohio State had no chance of winning.

Glad they sold out.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Eh, they just like to be contrary.

At the very least, you could always count on it having decent (intelligent) reviews of the arts, unlike the Dispatch.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

Yea, everything else was fine besides their dickweed sports writers

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Yea, everything else was fine besides their dickweed sports writers

High school droupouts who couldn't get a gig with the Dispatch.

 

[buckeyegrad]

I used to read it all the time when I was student at Ohio State. It was very anti-Dave Kaylor, which made me very pro-Other Paper.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

i say about every third week its good. it has the balls to say stuff that no place else in columbus has to. the current issue out last thurs calls the city a bunch of idiots for hiring a lady 165k to tell us what a second grader could have said...