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The Great Erasure: Local history tossed

One day it was there; the next, it was a “404 Not Found” error

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Matt Westerhold
Feb 18, 2026
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SANDUSKY — The late, great publisher of the Washington Post Phillip Graham is credited with calling journalism the “first draft of history.” But, in the hands of modern media conglomerates, that draft is being fed through a digital shredder.

The recent disappearance of the Sandusky Register’s YouTube channel—a decade-plus vault of raw, unedited civic lif…

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