Monthly Archives: August 2009

Learning From Mistakes

Courant Content Manager Jeffrey Levine has updated his staff on the troublesome and embarrassing flare-up over what the paper terms its “aggregation procedures.” (That’s not what the competition calls it, of course.) Levine’s latest is below… As you most likely already know, over the past week we became aware of some issues with our content [...]

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‘Daily Misappropriation’

The Journal Inquirer apparently stands ready to continue challenging what it calls the Courant’s “daily misappropriation” of its news coverage. In a story published today, JI Managing Editor Chris Powell says, “The Courant’s confession to plagiarism and its pledge to correct it do not resolve the bigger problem: the Courant’s daily misappropriation of the work [...]

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A Wedding And A Funeral

Our heartfelt sympathies go out to former Courant Managing Editor Claude Albert, whose father died yesterday morning. According to Courant alum Sue Quirk, the elder Albert had been in hospice care, and Claude’s mother had been with him for the previous 24 hours. Sue continues: “In the yin and yang of life, this sad event followed the [...]

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McEnroe On The Air Today

Colin McEnroe opens his new show on WNPR Radio today at 1 p.m. He says these shows will be more like his column in the Courant, as opposed to his politically liberal talk-radio approach. In any event, it’s good that a valuable and intelligent voice is returning to the public airwaves.  I suspect there will [...]

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