Category Archives: Opinion

Toward Breaking News And Hot Women

Former legislator-turned-political-commentator Jon Pelto makes some interesting observations about the Courant and other state media. Here’s a little chunk: In the HARTFORD COURANT the controversy surrounding the 24 state employees who may have lied to get food stamps has generated more than 10,000 words of coverage and two major editorials.  By comparison the potential lack [...]

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Another Pending — And Misplaced — Disaster

This element of the Tribune bankruptcy is potentially turning into a disaster for unsuspecting employees and former employees who made the mistake of investing in their own enterprise. I have said before and will say again: if the creditors are going after anyone, it ought to be Dennis FitzSimons and his cohorts who helped engineer [...]

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Turkey Technicality Investigated

This from Frank Spencer-Molloy, former  Courant medical writer turned scholar: A couple of days before Thanksgiving, The Courant ran (a) color photograph(s) of (living) turkeys on a farm where they had dyed the birds in brilliant colors. That didn’t sound right, and sure enough, because I have way too much free time, I looked up [...]

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Are You Good, OK, Or Under Goal?

Some bad management never changes. It just uses new technology. Case in point: In the interest of spreading the Courant and Fox61 Gospel into social media, all CT1 employees are required to Tweet regularly. Six tweets is OK. More than six is “good.” Anything less is “Under goal.” Lately, I hear, the number of daily [...]

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