Category: Future of Journalism
Courant Avoiding Producing Documents In Watchdog’s Wrongful Termination Suit
My attorney Joseph Garrison of New Haven has filed documents in Hartford Superior Court notifying Judge Marshall Berger that the Courant “has furnished almost no discovery” despite legal requirements that it do so. So far we have provided every available document in our possession to Courant lawyers in answer to their interrogatories and I have sat [...]
Topix – Under Pressure – Agrees To Reform
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, joined by 31 other state attorneys general, today announced an agreement with Topix.com to improve consumer protections and eliminate a $19.99 fee to expedite review of abusive or inappropriate posts. All reports of abuse on Topix, an Internet message board host, will be reviewed free of charge, and the site [...]
Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? Really? DOJ’s Political ‘Purge’ and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Connecticut Crime Case
Four days before Connecticut’s Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush administration’s U.S. attorney firing scandal, a team of lawyers she led was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Andrew Kreig, who covered Connecticut’s federal courts for the Hartford Courant from 1976 to 1981, today reveals that the previously unreported fact from Dannehy’s past calls her entire national investigation into question. The revelations similarly compromise the pending investigation by her Connecticut colleague, John Durham, who since 2008 has been the nation’s special prosecutor for DOJ and CIA decision-making involving torture.
Better Business Bureau Gives HAMAS Terrorist Organization Accreditation And A- Rating
In an embarrassing move that shines light on how little checking is done by some Better Business Bureau’s before accrediting a business, a California blogger revealed tonight that someone has managed to get a fake business with the name of the terrorist organization Hamas accredited by the bureau in return for a $425 fee.
Blumenthal Ducks Giving Direct Answers To His False Military Claims
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sidestepped giving direct answers to his false claims that he served in Vietnam as a Marine.
Blumenthal was the guest speaker today at the Litchfield-Morris Rotary Club where I asked him how he could have accidentally told veterans that he served in Vietnam.
Feds Bully ‘Die Hard’ Moviemaker McTiernan Into Plea for False Statements
Andrew Kreig, the Courant’s federal court reporter from 1976 to 1980, comments on what the July 12 plea of famed moviemaker John McTiernan signifies about his case and our ability to understand similar federal prosecutions.
Squabble Between PolitiFact and Arianne Huffington Shows Why You Should Read Both
As a journalist and a news junkie I love to read insightful coverage of major world and national events.
More and more I turn to the Internet (I still have the Wall Street Journal and Hartford Courant delivered as well as several news magazines) to get a wide range of facts and opinions.
Two places I love going to are the Huffingtonpost.com and PolitiFact.com, with its Pulitzer Prize winning Truth-O-Meter.
Oz Griebel: Reduce Legislators’ and Their Spouses’ Free Health Insurance Life Coverage
I am not familiar with all the candidates for Connecticut governor, but I have had the pleasure of meeting GOP contender Oz Griebel in many of his roles: banker and civic leader.
He is not a politician by your standard measurements, but he is extremely qualified in my book.
iPhone: First Impression From The Experts
Are you one of those who is sitting on the fence on whether to shell out $200 for the iPhone 4 and make a (ouch) two-year commitment to AT&T?
Well I am an Apple lover, have Apple stock and also how shares of Cirrus Logic, which makes some of the Apple parts.
New London Day Becomes 11th Newspaper To Publish Weekly CtWatchdog Column
I am thrilled to announced that the New London Day, considered by many as one of the best small newspapers in America, today became the 11th newspaper to start carrying my weekly CtWatchdog newspaper column. The column also runs on this website as well as several other news sites in Connecticut. The other daily newspapers [...]
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