Several folks have complained about how difficult it would be to actually read through the huge advertising supplement that lays out every word of the three state issues on Tuesday’s ballot.Well, well, well.This one goes out to all the people who keep accusing the “mainstream media” of distorting the truth because we “filter” the news.You want your news unfiltered? Fine. We’ll get out of your way and let you read all 58 newspaper pages of state Issue 2.You can read them, absorb them and synthesize them into a few key points so you can explain them to your family and friends.That’s what journalists do. But if you’d rather do it yourself, have at it.You also could head down to the courthouse every day and look at every lawsuit that’s filed to find a few that seem important or interesting.And you could comb through the police reports every day to see whether something serious has happened in your community, or whether there’s a bad trend in your neighborhood that you ought to be aware of.And you could attend your city’s council meetings and see what your elected officials are up to.Heck, maybe, instead of writing game stories for the sports section, we should just print the complete play-by-play so we don’t emphasize the wrong things or appear to be favoring one school over the other.If I’m sounding a bit cranky, it’s because people who would never take the time to read all 58 pages of state Issue 2 are among the first to accuse “The Media” — that gigantic monolith — of being uniformly biased and “filtering” the news.Do we get everything right? Nope. Do we sometimes misinterpret things? Yep. Do we sometimes make bad judgments about what are the most important aspects of a situation? Sure do.But most of the time we get it right. And we do it 365 days a year. When we don’t get it right, we run corrections, which you will find in the same place every day: Page A2.Even though your daily newspaper is significantly smaller than it was seven years ago, the 75 cents you’re paying still buys you an awful lot of legwork, number-crunching, interviewing and fact-checking.Heck, we in the newspaper biz are so nice that we’ll even give you the same stuff over the Internet — absolutely free!No, wait a minute. That will never work. ...Happy ending?Sunday’s column was a bummer.It told the tale of John Jacobs Jr., a 45-year-old Stow resident who, like so many others in Greater Akron, has been laid off multiple times through no fault of his own and, because of the rotten economy, has been unable to find a job for nearly a year.Jacobs has lost his car and emptied his 401(k) and is on the brink of losing his house.Reader response to that column was the polar opposite of a bummer.Not only did dozens of people contact me to pass along job offers or leads, but half a dozen wanted to send him cash and gift certificates.Jacobs’ response, in an email to me, shows what kind of guy he is:“This is UNREAL! I have contacted 95 percent of the people who sent emails to you and I have interviews set up for next week.“The people who email you and want to send money to me, a total stranger, is beyond my wildest dreams. I have contacted those people and asked that they donate that money to Harvest for Hunger, Haven of Rest or the Salvation Army instead.“As I told you, there are people worse off than me. The one guy wanted to buy me rounds of golf and magazine subscriptions and send me $100. I told him that would feed 50 people this Thanksgiving, and he said he was going to donate that money to feed them.“I am just overwhelmed and touched so deeply the way the community has responded.”OMG indeedAkron’s Elizabeth Bartz was traveling through Northwest Ohio when she drove past a Vietnamese restaurant in Bellevue and did a double take.She took a photo of the restaurant’s neon sign and sent it to me, along with a wisecrack about the aborted Akron General Medical Center billboard campaign in which the phrase “OMG” was deemed too racy.“Can you only imagine the outcry if we had this restaurant in Akron?”The name of the place: “What the Pho.”Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com.