Columbus Dispatch discovers the internet?

Oh, that’s nothing. About two years ago, there was a dustup following the suggestion of a Cleveland Plain Dealer lawyer that websites and other Internet distribution channels (none of which he was likely familiar with) should PAY the Plain Dealer to post links. The paper’s “reader representative” (i.e. management shill) Ted Diadiun actually suggested that maybe the paper never should had never “dove into the Internet surf.” In other words, been the only publication in America not to be online. Now there’s some forward thinking!