Changes at the Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant was a great newspaper.

The key word here, as you might expect, is "was".

This new Courant is a clusterfuck waiting to happen. Can't wait to hear all the pissed-off people complaining, not that it will do any good.

 

It's Satuwday! Goin' wabbit huntin'!

 

These are some seriously bad ideas. I got laid off, and I know it sucks, but it might not suck as bad as working for people who think that was thinking.

 

Thanks Hartford!

Now, Baltimore, c'mon down!

You're next on The Tribune Company Commits Hara-Kiri!

 

I went to college in Connecticut, many years ago, and if I recollect, they have high school football there Friday nights. This could lead to problems for the new non-sports Saturday paper.

 

Aside from that, outdoorspeople tend to plan and are up before dawn on Saturdays. They do not wait for the Saturday paper and say to themselves: "Hmmmmm, on second thought, maybe I will shoot me some squirrels today. Thanks, Courant!"

 

Well, football IS played outdoors...

 

Hope "Bobbie" is prepared for the shitstorm in September with football.....

 

If they try this experiment, the Saturday sports section would go back to its previous form in, say, six weeks.

 

More like the second football Saturday edition

 

This stupid shit will not save newspapers.

Wanna be bold? Innovative? Risk-taking?

Start charging to read your fucking paper on line. Tomorrow. Tribune wide.

You pay for a subscription, you have full access to the on-line version, the paper's archives, and all kinds of new stuff.

But stop dressing up stupid and calling it new and improved.

 

Didn't they already have a big round of buyouts errrr, layoffs? I can't keep 'em straight. There are so many. But shit. This is getting ridiculous.