The news business is maybe the greatest story left untold in Connecticut, because by and large the press doesn’t like to cover the press, or misdeeds they’d otherwise cover in the case of a cop, a businessman or a politician.
Does a newsroom have an obligation, say, to cover embezzlement when it’s their own editor?
And we’ll probably never know why Day columnist David Collins was abruptly fired, by email, after more than 45 years.
Few outlets offered more than passing coverage of efforts to unionize Hearst.
Three years ago, there was a hot debate in our newsroom about whether to pursue complaints that the East Lyme Police Department had spiked tickets as a favor to The Day — a minor matter perhaps — if three years later a member of their staff hadn’t been caught in an improper relationship with the former chief.
Is there a broken windows theory for reporting on reporting?
In retrospect, I can’t help but wonder if the local press — CT Examiner included — hadn’t done a better job of reporting earlier, we could have nipped the ongoing and unresolved police conduct in the bud.
Food for thought.