COLUMBUS, Ohio — A network of pseudo-news websites that last year promoted one of Gov. Mike DeWine’s Republican primary opponents has launched a print edition to encourage passage of State Issue 1 ahead of the Aug. 8 special election. Ohioans, including mystified left-leaning voters, last week reported getting unsolicited mail copies of the Buckeye Reporter, an eight-page document designed to look like a newspaper. The mailer is a motley combination of content. Most of it consists of positive articles about Issue 1, the proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution, describing its many Republican endorsers while unsubtly describing the measure’s opponents as communists and allies of the LGBTQ community. It also includes calendar listings of unremarkable community events, like a Aug. 1 social media summit hosted by a Columbus regional planning agency. A publisher’s note describes the mailer as the inaugural print edition of the Buckeye Reporter,…
Continue Reading: Wondering why you got a copy of the ‘Buckeye Reporter’ in the mail? Here’s more about the pseudo news network behind it.
