"Michelle shouldn't tell jokes," the editors state. "Connecticut politicians are considering support for several ailing newspapers, the Herald (of New Britain) and the Bristol Press among them. There are many reasons to oppose such an action."
Not the least being that it is "impossible to have a free press bankrolled by the government: A press that is not financially independent is not editorially independent," the magazine notes.
One of the Connecticut newspapers is operated by the Journal Register Co., its stock having gone from $25 a share to a penny.
VIEWER RELIEF
"Sight for Sore Eyes on CNN," praises the Columbia Journalism Review -- cleaner TV screen space:
"A visual calm (well, not quite that) has come to CNN. The cable network has retired its bottom-of-the-screen news crawl (The Ticker) and replaced it with rotating phrases/headlines (The Flipper) that actually stay static on the screen long enough to be read (and sometimes even have something to do with what the anchor is saying at the time).
"CNN exec Bart Feder is touting the lack of visual clutter, the cleaner 'screen space.' This from the channel that brought us presidential debates with such on-screen graphics as the 'perception analyzer' and pundit scoreboards."