George Gombossy was apparently amused and flabbergasted at the full page  ad that appeared in Sunday’s Courant. It protests a plan to allow government to post public notices online instead of in the newspaper.

Here’s part of it, minus the giant screaming headline “The Government Can’t Police Itself.”

You can read it for yourself, but suffice it to say the quality of the argument and scare-tactic approach are an embarrassment to an institution that is supposed to be upholding  standards of objective comment, intellectual sophistication and integrity. (Not to mention high-quality rhetoric.)

The Connecticut Daily Newspapers’ Association needs to get a better propagandist.

It would have been more honest to simply say…

Dear Readers: We are about to lose one of our last remaining dependable streams of easy revenue, and even though we know the government is in really bad shape, we need the money. So please give us a break (and save a job) by letting us soak the  taxpayers for a service the government could provide at virtually no cost to itself.

That would be the “transparent” thing to do.