The Blade

And so if your takeaway as a politician trying to play a political game to manipulate voters and do that and play that real politic, yeah, you could take it all as anti-trans and all of that and go in, and that's what they've done.

Like, take Amy Acton's thing to the Toledo Blade, for instance.

She could have said, "I don't support trans kids playing sports." That's not what she said.

She said, "I don't support boys playing girls' sports." So d- she took the rhetoric of the bigotry and the anti-trans hysteria, and she used that instead of just saying...

Have you ever heard of David Jablonski? though.

You ever heard of David Briggs from the Toledo Blade? No, probably not.

Scrolling through, he's got Western Michigan ranked.

You ever heard of Randy Johnson or Pete Welter.

Later on in the podcast, I'll have a quick take that Yogi Berra would have called deja vu all over again.

The Block family, which owns the Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, says it will shut down the paper if they can't find a buyer by the end of 2026.

Now, where have we heard that before? Stay tuned to find out.

I'll have a second quick take on Ellen's behalf on the new impact report from the American Journalism Project, a philanthropic organization that turns out to be one of the biggest funders of nonprofit news in the country.

They've been feeding on the polarization that cable news gives them all the time and And I really think that if we could restore good quality local news to the conversation, it would help with a lot of problems.

Anyway, I'm now going to move on to our quick takes on developments in local news.

The Block family, which has owned the Blade newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, since 1925, is putting the paper on the market.

Now the blade's been around since 1835.

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Growing Old Gracefully from The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, June 4, 1891.

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Toledo Blade, Sunstar, Fremont News Messenger, a Medium article by Mr. O. That's all he goes by.

Okay.

Okay, Mr. O.

I mentioned the other day that my friends, the Block family, I knew Mr.

Block, Paul Block, and then his sons, who he adopted, Alan and John, took over the business, and they're going to close down the Toledo Blade at the end of the year.

Let's buy it, Paul.

Do you really want to buy a newspaper?

A couple more notorious, infamous ones that I wanted to share with you here.

This one was actually published back on August 13th in the Toledo Blade.

This written by Nancy Ann Cherry.

Headline, Transformers, a poorly made, confusing toy ad.

I don't know what the role of the newspaper is anymore when it comes to shaping public opinion.

I think it's best in the era where newspapers are – I read this week that the Toledo Blade, Toledo Blade, which every major city has had their newspaper for 150 years, whatever it is, and that's the one in Toledo, Ohio.

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That it could close.