The Former WTF?

really, dude, one thing like that by one local celeb/Blade contributor and you pull funding? way to over-react. unless you have never donated to them before, in which case, this is not your reason for not donating now. lol, who's being silly?

A) I sleep pretty well, thank you, Holland.
B)Nana, beyond donations I have contributed content to our local PBS station which means there were considerable production costs involved.

Folks, you may think this is silly but you might want to consider how your interests, Holland that would be small business concerns, are poorly reported by the local daily, and how any business that runs afoul of the local daily gets squashed while they have no hesitation about smashing us with their agenda with annoying regualrity.
That our local PBS station allows their guest commentator to perpetuate one of these idiosyncratic reporting dysfunctions doesn't concern you invites the axiom that a community gets the media reporting it deserves.
Are you two satisfied that the local daily represents your civic concerns independent of the non-resident publisher's concerns? I think not. Do you want to see this leach into our PBS television station? I hope not.

I asked an editor about this once. The answer was pretty simple:

"We have been directed to identify UTMC as the former MCO."

So all of JRB's puppies, including Mr. Ombudsman, will use this reference. (Whether they are on public TV, private TV, standing on a street corner, or shouting from a mountian. Mr. Lessenberry actually mentioned this "former MCO" thing in a recent column. As you might guess, he really didn't explain it, other than to say something to the effect of "and that is all I am going to say about that."

"........ invites the axiom that a community gets the media reporting it deserves."

Ding! Ding! Ding!

This area gets EXACTLY the media it deserves. The majority of the Sheeple in NW Ohio are completely content being spoon fed the swill served up by the local daily along with the completely worthless local TV stations (non-taxpayer funded as WGTE actually has some content worth watching) that are void of anything that could be considered "news".

Trust me, in a free market system (we still are aren't we??), if the people demanded better, they'd get it. Or, the local daily rag and TV stations would cease to exist. Gee, what a shame that would be. Might even open the door for a real newspaper and some serious minded TV station operators to enter the local market.

I guess I just don't think about it as deep as you, Mad. I don't read the paper and I don't watch TV, sorry. :)

Probably the local PBS hosts are allowed to choose their own words while on camera. If I were annoyed by the UTMC/FMCO issue, I would bring it up with Jack Lessenberry, not the entire PBS station.

Nana'a got a great point, above. Watching less TV and reading less of the current "news" greatly reduces my frustration and despair.

Those of us that have lived in the area of MCO will always call it that.

1964-2003 Medical College of Ohio (19 years)

2003-2006 Medical University of Ohio at Toledo (3 years)

2006-2012 University of Toledo Medical Center formerly known as Medical College of Ohio. (6 years)

Technically, it should be referred to as "The University of Toledo Medical Center, formerly the Medical University of Ohio at Toledo, which was formerly known as the Medical College of Ohio."
Or "TUOTMCFTMUPTWWFKATMCO" for short.

I knew a guy who graduated from MUOT. Soon after, he was sent a replacement diploma from UTMC. It's like MUO never existed. It's been pretty much washed from the internet.

The Toledo Blade, formerly known as The Blade, which was merged with The Times.

From Foodie: Trust me, in a free market system (we still are aren't we??), if the people demanded better, they'd get it. Or, the local daily rag and TV stations would cease to exist. Gee, what a shame that would be. Might even open the door for a real newspaper and some serious minded TV station operators to enter the local market.

The people can make all the demands they want and they still won't get anything other than what they have now. My reasoning is based on start-up costs and the lack of financial return on dead tree media for the daily news. Unless you have well over five million that you want to put on the line, forget about starting a competing newspaper. TV requires a much larger investment, although I suppose you might confine your broadcasts to the Internet and get around licensing.

Whatever you decide to do, you still have the problem of hiring a huge team of reporters and sending them to out of the way places in the hope that one of them will uncover the story of the century - The Ayatollah Obama and Zero with their hands in the cookie jar, or the RamRods (Romney/Ryan) doing jello shots off a naked twelve year old transsexual Christian exchange student while on a fact finding mission to Phuket, Thailand.

And no, we are not in a free market system. We're in the middle of a carnivorous bug-infested swamp where a large group of government employees are trying to construct an airport.

OK, you really can't make this chit up. :) :)

Lessenberry works at Wayne State University, formerly known as the Detroit Medical College.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_State_University