2 Responses to “Other Media Attention”

1. 1 Alfred R.
   Feb 25th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

   Who’s going to cover the whole sordid story of the layoffs and the despicable way in which they were carried out, over the phone after dedicated, longtime editors and reporters were kept hanging in the wind for weeks. Someone might also tackle the ongoing saga of the Courant’s demise: the slow fade to irrelevance with less news and more ads, more briefs and more white space; the inevitable loss of thousands of fed-up subscribers; the ill-considered redesign; the lack of news stories on the front page during a time of war and economic collapse; the superficial coverage of national news with prepackaged fluff wrapped into the back of the shrinking A section; the endless, self-absorbed features about nothing on the wacky front page? Everyone’s been afraid to say anything because they thought they’d lose their jobs. Now they’ve all lost their jobs, so it might as well all be said.

2. 2 wticfreak
   Feb 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm

   The glass is half tragedy and half comedy and the best thing to do is laugh and start your new life. Today is the first day of the rest of the century and the rest of the history of journalism, writing, teaching, telling, narrating, blogging, disseminating, living, working and leaving stuff for posterity. Rock on. Party on. Motor on.