Daily Archives: July 13, 2009

Horrible Moments Removed

It would appear that the Alice Morrin “final moments” audio file has been removed from the Courant.com site. … after about seven hours. Some of my sources on the inside suggest that the majority of editors were opposed to having it up in the first place. Now, more than ever, I would like to know [...]

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The Horrible Final Moments

How much information — and what kind — is too much? I’m generally on the side of disclosing too much information, then letting people decide for themselves what it means; but I can see where the release of audio of Fox 61 editor Alice Morrin’s final moments might be viewed as 5 percent information and [...]

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Covering Themselves

I listened to Duby McDowell, Janet Peckinpaugh, Carol Jenkins and Daniel Schwartz talk about Fox 61 reporter Shelly Sindland’s gender and age discrimination complaint a few minutes ago on John Dankosky’s WNPR  show Where We Live. The program raised a number of interesting points, including the question of how thoroughly The Courant would be following the [...]

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More Sharp Practice?

Maybe I’ve just gotten cynical — or suspect of Sam Zell’s methods, a la the ESOP; but I have to wonder who’s getting screwed this time in the possible bankrupcty of the Chicago Cubs.

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