It’s Our Town
The following article by Elizabeth Keyser, appeared in the July 7, 2009 edition of Fairfield Weekly, which can be found at: http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=13734. It is reprinted here with permission, courtesy of the Fairfield Weekly.
Pressed to the Bone
Fairfield County’s less local, more consolidated, resource-starved newspapers
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 Fairfield Weekly
By Elizabeth Keyser
Your local paper is [...]
Recently, the Daily Show coined the phrase “aged news” to describe print newspapers. Here is an example. Readers of today’s Greenwich Time (July 22) could read on page 3 about burglaries in eastern Greenwich. The burglaries first occurred two weeks ago on July 7 and 8.
Readers of OurGreenwich.com could have read of these events, and [...]
I enjoy “scooping” the local papers, in part because I love local news. I believe competition from “citizen journalist” will make our local print media strive to be more local and more timely. I also believe I am bringing a benefit to our readers by keeping you informed of local goings on. However, I do [...]
Notwithstanding the main headline on the front page of today’s Greenwich Time, Greenwich Police will NOT be encrypting all of its radio calls.
First Selectman Peter Tesei, in his role as Police Commissioner, accepted the recommendation of Police Chief David Ridberg that GPD continue its current practice of clear-view broadcasting of all but the most sensitive [...]
I’m not an educator, but I’ve been a student enough to know some of the tricks of the trade. When you don’t have enough material to meet the teacher’s expectations you adjust the margins, play with the font, and add a lot a pictures and graphics. A clever student could make two pages of content [...]
The other morning I noticed the masthead on the paper in the Greenwich Time box in front of St. Mary’s on the Avenue said “Advocate.”
The first thought that crossed my mind was “they are coming out of the closet” — that the Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. company was admitting, finally, that the difference between [...]
Famed criminal defense lawyer, Mickey Sherman, is hosting a weekly radio show on our Greenwich’s local station, WGCH (1490 on the AM dial and streaming live on WGCH.com).
The show, “Sherman’s Law,” launched Thursday May 14, and will air every Thursday from 4-5pm EST. Listeners can call-in and speak with the host and guest. (Call (203) [...]
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The main headline in Sunday’s Greenwich Time was “Promotion Freeze Impedes Police.” If you are a regular reader of OurGreenwich.com you would have known about that story about two weeks ago. Indeed we ran two columns on the story: “NOT a pretty picture. The local print media chose not to focus.” and “Judicial Passivism”.
Several [...]