Monthly Archives: October 2009

Slip Of The Clicker (Plagiarism) Addendum

Apparently that little plagiarism incident involving the Courant’s women’s basketball blog was noticed at high levels of Tribune management, where it was not well received. Nobody was fired, but some suspensions were handed out. Substitute bloggers have been posting on the blog for the last few days. The paper didn’t make a big public deal [...]

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Happy 245th Birthday

Henry McNulty, the former ombudsman whose father literally wrote the book on The Hartford Courant, reminds us that today is the paper’s 245th birthday. (And in one of life’s little ironies, there is another birthday, too.) Answer: It is. Here, too. Of course this invites speculation as to how many more years The Courant has [...]

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‘Out Of Bankruptcy By Next Year’

Sam Zell says he can see a way out of bankruptcy by early next year. He also addresses the “fraudulent conveyance” issue, which he says is invalid in Tribune’s case.

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A Slip Of The Click?

The Laurel says it is a “little late” on this. So what does that make me? Geez, Louise. This is the danger the Internet and instant publishing poses for writers, both professional and otherwise. While the hungry beast cries for more, wrong stuff and stuff-done-wrong gets into circulation without much checking, only to be corrected [...]

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