Quick Read

Featuring Linda Evans (she also planned the Inaugural Ball we are spotlighting), the Dispatch’s “Obama Fans Plan Their Parties” feature is excellent. The front page also features thorough reporting on two major stories, the Batelle expansion and the request (unions would say demand) by Mayor Coleman that unions do not give raises.

The front page should have featured a story about the sex chat room bust of Eric McFadden, Governor Strickland’s former faith based office overseer… Unfortunately, the news was buried on the metro front, just above a story on chimneys that would have well on B5.

Speaking of columns that should have been buried, Tim May’s disguise of an article about Brian Hartline, as an article about the revamping of OSU was infuriating. The story should have been packaged into a notebook for the back of the section; instead it was center of the sports front page with a bold headline and graphics… The only way the story deserved this treatment is if it were an examination of why Hartline, who may be a third round pick at best, made such a stupid decision…

Life and Arts was also featured nothing noteworthy, lacing their front with a story on fashion trends, that featured no fashion trends and a photo lead about what to do with non-digital televisions… The story featured solid information…. Unfortunately, the information wasn’t anything I hadn’t already heard…