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2009 OFCC Calendar
| Is no CCW news good news for these Ohio newspapers? |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Friday, 14 March 2003 | |
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When Ohio's ban on CCW was ruled unconstitutional in a Hamilton County court last year, OFCC took note of a number of media outlets which were largely silent on the story. When a Democrat judge from Seneca County became the third Ohio court to rule Ohio's CCW ban unconstitutional, we pointed out that many major Ohio newspapers failed to so much as mention the ruling. In spite of this history, who would have guessed that three major Ohio newspapers would manage to keep the news of HB12's passage out of the headlines? • Is no CCW news good news for the Akron Beacon Journal? Their only mention of this week's action was a paragraph giving the vote count, buried deep within a story about Ohio gas taxes. • Is no CCW news good news for the Cincinnati Enquirer? Their online edition had no references to HB12 on Thursday or Friday. Have they, perhaps, forgotten their pro-CCW editorial, published on 1/2/02 following the Hamilton County constitutionality ruling? Click here to view an archive of the editorial. • Is no CCW news good news for the Cincinnati Post? Their online edition had no references to HB12 on Thursday or Friday. • Is no CCW news good news for the many other Ohio dailies that managed to print stories on the gas tax hike vote in the House, which occurred AFTER the vote on HB12? |
