Unless you’ve recently been abducted by ICE you already know about Columbus City Councilmember Emanuel Remy and the $84,700 paid to his staff member for his verbal abuse (our tax dollars mind you, not his). He has lost the trust of the people he is supposed to represent, but ran unopposed on November 4 thanks to the gerrymandered “At-Large” voting system where all competition is crushed without mercy… but you’re missing something.

One of the last independent journalists in Columbus, D.J. Byrnes AKA “The Rooster,” broke the story before the November 4 election. If you subscribe to his online news you would know about it (you should). Would that news have affected the Vogel vs. Ross District 7 race? Yes, it would have.

So what did all of the corporate-owned media outlets do about it? Didn’t they do their civic duty to inform the people of Columbus all about what a terrible person Emanuel Remy has been?

Nope. They did nothing. They sat on the story for after the election.

All of the corporate-owned news sources in Columbus followed their overlords by ignoring the most important story of the election cycle. And the final result was that Ross won the election by a narrow margin (only 11 percent of citizens voted and Vogel won all of District 7). The story would have had an impact on the election and the future of our city, but the “news media” did nothing. It’s the most important story of the election cycle that nobody is talking about.

Columbus local mainstream media is officially dead.

The complete and absolute corporate takeover of our local media has had negative results for the city, but positive results for the rich and powerful. Ross will take her elevated seat in City Council in January (in addition to Remy who has still not apologized to the woman he abused) and as expected she will do nothing. That’s why she was nominated by the corporate democrats; to serve the developer-industrial complex and soak out as much money from the city as possible. She will be featured in lots of photo opportunities (none that include the homeless of course) and will also keep her current six-figure job as a city attorney as a bonus. Her pension will continue to grow and her health benefits will improve even better than before.

"He who controls the media controls the mind," ~ Noam Chomsky

We are the pawns of the developer-industrial complex whose only job is to exist to fund their greed. And, no matter how much money they have they will still be proud to let the homeless live in tents under the freeway. This is Columbus. This is the greatest story that will never be told – how our local media failed to do their jobs by just telling us the truth.

It’s a sad day to live in Columbus, unless you are rich and powerful.