Daily Archives: February 19, 2009

Some Of The Old Pizazz

The Hartford Courant, as I recall, once or twice held the title as the best designed newspaper in the world, and maybe the best of any inhabited planets between Andromeda II and the Horologium Dwarf  galaxies. It is unlikely to again win that designation now that Tribune is bastardizing it with BeyondCT and other canned stuff, [...]

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Refugees All Over The Damn Place

Many of you probably remember Ingrid Muller, the talented graphic designer who left the Courant to join the Denver Post some years ago. I think she was at least partly responsible for the horizontal 9/11 cover hanging on the newsroom wall. She has become a refugee, too, Bernie Davidow reports. Here’s another account.

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McEnroe Rips Topix — And It’s Righteous

Colin McEnroe has an intellect like a freaking laser, and when he zeros in on something, get out of the way. He has recently been provoked into examining the Courant’s Topix message boards, or as I like to call them, The Courant’s Trailer Park. He is also critical of the “Reader Speak” feaure which came [...]

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