Fox 61 will give viewers a “behind the scenes tour” of its new home on Broad Street Thursday night. It’s the warm up for the first live newscast on Saturday.
Wednesday night, Brent Hardin told a highly synopsized version of Courant reporter Ken Gosselin’s story on the media “marriage,” and pointed out that the combined operations of TV and newspaper “will create the largest news-gathering operation in the state.”
Of course he did not add that before hundreds of layoffs over the past couple years, The Courant was already the largest news-gathering operation in the state and had been for decades. It might even still be — even without Fox 61. (And not counting ESPN, which is headquartered here.)
Anyway, historal context aside, I advise that the behind-the-scenes tour not include the new newsroom carpet.
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Would that Fox 61 had been around to give the public a “behind-the-scenes tour” of what happened over the past few years to dismantle the state’s oldest and largest, and once-profitable, news-gathering organization. That was a real story. But of course that ship has sailed.
Or perhaps give us a tour of the careers the company has killed and the families they nearly destroyed. Ethics have no place at The Courant or FOX 61, but don’t despair I am sensing the charade is nearly over.