Comments on: Great Thing About Unemployment No. 4 http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/03/08/great-thing-about-unemployment-no-4/ Where The Latest On Former Hartford Courant Employees Can Be Found Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Alfred R. http://www.courantalumni.org/2009/03/08/great-thing-about-unemployment-no-4/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Alfred R. Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:17:41 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=1183#comment-390 Unemployment is like an ailment in itself. But we carry on, rousing ourselves from our beds (while we still have beds), take our medicine and read our morning Courant online. The forward-thinking Courant accelerated the move to online newspapers by laying off many of its reporters and editors and canceling their subscriptions. There are lots of fun puzzles you can enjoy in the online version of the newspaper. One of them is navigating through the assortment of confusing menus to anything you'd like to read. Try to find the columnists today, for example. They seem to have vanished from the site's front page. (Another round of layoffs? A walk-off to protest the ban on writing about the cutbacks?) If you're determined to read today's columns, you can enter the site's maze and search -- endlessly and fruitlessly. The future is online, hidden somewhere behind all the menus and ads. Unemployment is like an ailment in itself. But we carry on, rousing ourselves from our beds (while we still have beds), take our medicine and read our morning Courant online. The forward-thinking Courant accelerated the move to online newspapers by laying off many of its reporters and editors and canceling their subscriptions.

There are lots of fun puzzles you can enjoy in the online version of the newspaper. One of them is navigating through the assortment of confusing menus to anything you’d like to read. Try to find the columnists today, for example. They seem to have vanished from the site’s front page. (Another round of layoffs? A walk-off to protest the ban on writing about the cutbacks?) If you’re determined to read today’s columns, you can enter the site’s maze and search — endlessly and fruitlessly. The future is online, hidden somewhere behind all the menus and ads.

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