... the closing of The Post... has led to lower voter turnout, fewer candidates running for municipal office in the suburbs most reliant on The Post, and greater re-election chances for incumbents.
...our results cover only the Kentucky suburbs, because Ohio has not held regular municipal elections since the Post closed, and represent only the short-run consequences of the paper’s closing. Future research could investigate whether political engagement and competition return to their pre-closure level in the long run.
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Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
13 April 2009
The Post Mattered
NY Times says that newspapers do matter, and use the Cincinnati Post as an example:
20 August 2008
02 August 2008
John Lennon Headline 1980
"Profit Motive Lives". Get over yourselves, like newspapers have no motive for profit:
This Commentary riled me at the time. Bob Brumfield was the local crank, kinda like Bronson is today:
29 July 2008
Who Concert Headlines
29 years ago this month, I was 14 years old, and attended my first rock concert. It was at the Coliseum and it was "festival" seating. I am too embarrassed to name the band I saw (hint Judas Priest warmed-up). However, at that age I also read the newspaper every day. I saved a few clippings from what I considered significant headlines that year. A few months after my first concert, the Who came to town. Here is the first in a series of my 1979-1980 newspaper clippings:
28 December 2007
Post Times Star
In honor of the last day of the Cincinnati Post publication Monday, I have scanned a front page of a October 13, 1928 Times Star newspaper that I found in an OTR building being rehabbed. The Times-Star was an afternoon paper that I believe was combined with the Post. I remember my neighbor as a child had a box out by his mailbox that said "Post Times-Star", which I suppose was the combined name for a while.
This paper has a couple of interesting items:
1. The lead article is about a Graf Zeppelin attempting to land at US Air Station at Lakehurst the next day. Nine years later, the Hindenburg would go down in flames at this same landing site.
2. The paper cost 2 cents per copy, 12 cents per week.
3. The weather is predicted to be "unsettled"
4. Six private bus companies were using fountain square as a stop, and the city was trying to get them to purchase a site for a bus terminal at 6th and Sycamore.
5. "Burglars entered a Kroger store at 507 Wade Street early Saturday and stole 175lbs of sugar, 40lbs of butter, and cigarettes worth $96.16. The burglars entered the basement and cut a hole in the floor to get into the store"
6. 35,000 Catholics from 100 Hamilton County parishes, are expected to march tomorrow in the Holy Name parade. The parade will start on upper Race Street and proceed south to 7th and then west to Redland field, where Archbishop McNicholas will give benediction. There is detail given about the re-routing of streetcars around the parade. The streetcar routes are familiar bus routes 17, 19 etc...
A fire in Mt. Adams:
Alfred Smith, Presidential Candidate in KY:
Black Republicans:
The first bookmobile:
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