The Courant To Make Deep Cuts, 'Reinvent' Paper

Sadly, the politicians 7 dysfunctional State Agencies will now be corrupt unabated with no exposure. Rowland fell and Ellef too when investigative stories appeared. I guess only DiBella is immune. Eddie Perez is happy.

"Dinosaur media alert!"

I get angry with less news coverage and things that are not covered. Then I remember that it is not the employees that have put holes in the papers work but management.
Thank you to the hard working employees for years of dedicated service.
The years of intolerant high cost advertising and inflexibility has caught up with newspapers. Companies can do cable TV for sooo much less. "Good Ole Tom" is a great example.

...maybe it will be less so after the cuts.
nothing forces discipline like the fear of God or losing one's job.
Try this- why don't you folks DO your JOB and actually report on malfeasance and fulfill your role as the 4th estate - this state needs it...and you are all guilty of being useless in exposing the truth of how its citizens continue to be fleeced...

The level of reporting at the Courant has declined for years. "Lifestyle" items pose as news, but are just extended advertising pitches.

I killed my subscription years ago when I just couldn't tolerate the shallow analysis by Courant reporters. As subscriptions fall, advertisers melt away.

If you want to boost advertisers, you've got to get readers back. You can't get readers by further decimating the writing staff.

Oh great, a newspaper that is already suffering from lack of any real news looks like it will have even less. At least it will free up my Sundays. The 15 minutes it takes to read the worth while content will take less.

Years of unfair reporting have finally caught up with the Courant. Imagine considering relocating to Hartford and picking up a copy of the local newspaper. Doom and gloom. A person would say, "Why would I want to live here"? Start to print some positive articles. The image of Hartford would improve. Afterall, Hartford does have some positive points.

Perhaps if the Courant reported the facts and did not bias nearly 100% of it's stories to the left, people would still value what the Courant has to say. I cancelled my subscription after 38 years because of the liberal bias the paper has taken as opposed to reporting all of the facts and allowing the readers to determine their own opinions.
The rest of the American main stream media better wake up and smell the coffee as well before they too head the way of the dodo.
I delivered the Courant for 8 years as a kid, and never thought the Courant would ever wind up being worth less than the paper it was printed on. Time for truth and facts, or the market will send the Courant on to the endangered species list. What a shame.

The Courant is up to its old tricks again.

Deleting chat boards there the commentary matter is not well liked by the editors.

Here is my first post from last night:

This should come as no surprise.

In fact, I have been telling 'Pappy' and 'NewspaperReader' about this for the last six months.

I wonder how much of The Courant's lack of success is attributable to its radical liberal agenda, Democratic cheerleading, and biased reporting?

On a personal level, I am very sorry for all the people and their families who are impacted by this. Best of luck in the future to all.

Good! It's about time that the Courant went through the same process of "reorganization" and "cost-cutting" that its competitors went through (i.e. Hartford Times, Journal Inquirer) eventually forcing them out of business altogether. Now they know what it's like. I can make some suggestions as to other cuts. GET RID OF ALL THE COLUMNISTS!!! They have been running around without accountability writing unsubstantiated, biased, exaggerated, and flat-out mean spirited "columns" for years. And have never been held accountable for their work. And we as readers have no recourse, writing a letter to the editor does nothing, why? Because they're never printed. The Courant has held this "King of the Mountain" attitude for far too long, it's about time the King was knocked off his throne!

And my second post:

MrLogical wrote:
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Bingo. This was entirely avoidable had they simply reported the news in an objective and unbiased way. But they didn't, and now 25% of their employees will pay the price of an insular, elitist management bent on spewing their liberal, anti-American agenda.

As always, you (Mr. Logical) make the complicated so logical.

In my view, there is a bigger story here.

The story is this: Americans, by and large, are a moderate-of-the-road conservative lot. As such, they are going to migrate to the news source - be it online, print, radio, or TV - that they can identify with.

Yes, there are secular trends in the newspaper industry which are causing the daily papers to rethink their business strategies and cut costs.

However, this does not explain the consistent increases in circulation of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post over the last five years?

It is easy. Those newspapers report the news and their editorial page has a sensible, but oftentimes a conservative, orientation.

Just think of some of the recent editorials in The Courant:

- Extend the ban on off-shore drilling for oil
- Protect the polar bear instead of drilling for oil
- Congratulating the GA for its ethics bill
- Coming out against capital punishment

Connecticut residents will be freezing their tushes off this winter and are 'represented' by a GA who is more often indifferent to their constituents' plight and unwilling to take the necessary steps to protect them.

These are the stories that The Courant should be writing about and not the pie-in-sky liberal BS.

When The Courant begins to write articles that its readership can identify with, their subscription base will be more than enough to support the current headcount.

If not, more of the same will come.

That is a sad story to me.

The Courant is mostly "opinion disguised as news" ... and I do not share the paper's liberal positions on many important issues. The Waterbury Republican-American is a far better newspaper.

Johnboy wrote:

Perhaps if the Courant reported the facts and did not bias nearly 100% of it's stories to the left, people would still value what the Courant has to say. I cancelled my subscription after 38 years because of the liberal bias the paper has taken as opposed to reporting all of the facts and allowing the readers to determine their own opinions.
The rest of the American main stream media better wake up and smell the coffee as well before they too head the way of the dodo.
I delivered the Courant for 8 years as a kid, and never thought the Courant would ever wind up being worth less than the paper it was printed on. Time for truth and facts, or the market will send the Courant on to the endangered species list. What a shame.

... Second the motion , Bravo you.

Johnboy wrote:

Perhaps if the Courant reported the facts and did not bias nearly 100% of it's stories to the left, people would still value what the Courant has to say. I cancelled my subscription after 38 years because of the liberal bias the paper has taken as opposed to reporting all of the facts and allowing the readers to determine their own opinions.
The rest of the American main stream media better wake up and smell the coffee as well before they too head the way of the dodo.
I delivered the Courant for 8 years as a kid, and never thought the Courant would ever wind up being worth less than the paper it was printed on. Time for truth and facts, or the market will send the Courant on to the endangered species list. What a shame.

Gee, is that the same LIBERAL BIAS that endorsed a Corrupt and Greedy John G.(we all know what the G. now stands for) Rowland and then RELL?

CLUELESS!!!!

They've already cut the paper by 25 % by reducing 8 columns to 6. In the last few years it has become very biased and unfair, and I might add poorly written.THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS MUST BE TURNING OVER IN THEIR GRAVES.

The Courant's print edition has long been irrelevant, and this website is the cheesiest looking thing I have ever seen, with every square inch dominated by annoying ads and pop ups.
Best bet, close down the Courant and open a Starbucks. At least you'd be giving people what they want.

More "maps, charts and lists"? Reducing page counts? What will be left to read? What state government corruption won't get exposed? Why even bother subscribing to a bunch of advertising? A couple of weeks ago the Connecticut section had 6 pages 3 of which were Obits and the Weather page. Is that little happening in a state of 3.5 M to report on?

This is a travesty, the Courant was never great but it beat out the rest of the newspapers in this state. Sadly it will now be at their level or at best only slightly above.

This is all an example of the dumbing down of society...

interesting the article from yesterday and the "memo" that was put online are now gone. So much for news instead of controlled communications...

Sad, but the media has dug their own grave. Look at TV news, there is no indepth reporting, no investigations, only sound bites that amount to nothing of substance.

Wow!! what a bunch of finger pointers we seem to have here!! Glad to see the Salem witch hunt days are still close to heart here in Ct.!!