Category: Watchdog v. Courant
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 [...]
Norwalk Hour Becomes 12th Ct Newspaper To Publish CtWatchdog Newspaper Column
In the summer of 1965 I began my newspaper (other than delivering the Ames Daily Tribune and the Des Moines Register) career at the Norwalk Hour as a galley boy. My summer job was to take lead bars from the elevator and place them on hooks over the boiling lead pots in Linotype machines. This Sunday [...]
Courant Asks Judge Again To Throw Out Watchdog Wrongful Termination Suit
The Courant and Tribune companies have again request that my wrongful termination suit be thrown out, claiming that I do not have legal recourse. The companies succeeded in their first request to dismiss and my lawyer, Joseph Garrison of New Haven filed an amended complaint, which is the subject of this motion. Since I do [...]
Watchdog Wrongful Termination Suit Against Courant, Tribune, resurrected
As promised, my wrongful termination suit against The Courant and Tribune companies has been resurrected by my attorney, Joseph Garrison of New Haven. Garrison today filed an amended complaint in Hartford Superior Court, focusing on the expressed promises made to me by Courant executives that advertising pressure would not adversely impact my job as the [...]
Judge Dismisses Watchdog’s Wrongful Termination Suit Against Courant And Tribune Companies
Hartford Superior Court Judge Marshall Berger has dismissed my wrongful termination suit against The Hartford Courant and the Tribune Co., agreeing with the firms that I did not have a legal basis to bring to suit. The dismissal, dated Monday but made available to me this afternoon, is a victory for the newspaper companies and [...]
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 [...]
Courant Columnist Rick Green Twists Facts To Protect Blumenthal
I am simply posting Rick Green’s blog tonight and let the readers decide what is fact and what is fiction.
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Rick Green
on May 26, 2010 9:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Consumer blogger Gombossy is up off the mattress and trying to breath new life into the sagging Blumenthal-lied-about-Vietnam story. Gombo dialed up Chris Shays, who describes himself as a good friend of the attorney general, to see if the former Connecticut congressman could recover any new memories of Blumenthal blunders he witnessed, dreamed, imagined or heard about on Fox News.
Trouble Sleeping? Watch TV Interview With The Watchdog
Here is a sure-fire way of falling a sleep, an hour interview with the Watchdog. No reflection on the good folks at the Granby local cable station (Cox Channel 16) who produce the Granby Forum and tried their best to get me to say something controversial. True to my reputation as a soft-spoken diplomat, I [...]
Courant Insists It Has Legal Right To Tell Columnists/Reporters To Go Light On Advertisers And Coaches
The public and the staff of the nation’s oldest newspaper of continuous circulation might be interested to know that The Courant’s legal position is that it was has the right to fire a columnist if he or she is too tough on its advertisers or it they are too critical of a University of Connecticut [...]
Courant Foreclosure Ads: More Expensive For Victims Than Identical Ads For Anyone Else
The Hartford Courant is the only daily newspaper in Connecticut that charges a higher rate for victims of foreclosure than for anyone else purchasing similar ads in its Sunday real estate section. That information was contained in a document the Connecticut Daily Newspaper Association sent to state judges this week. After I disclosed the discrepancy, [...]
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