Newspaper stops journalist's blog
Brian Toolan, editor of the Connecticut newspaper Hartford Courant has forced its employee Denis Horgan to discontinue his blog. Horgan was previously a columnist now working in travel, and he put up the blog at his own spare time and expense to cover some of the same issues he had previously been writing about, esentially whatever he liked.
Toolan, obviously a control freak, doesn't like the idea at all, and "explains" it like this:
"Denis Horgan's entire professional profile is a result of his attachment to the Hartford Courant, yet he has unilaterally created for himself a parallel journalistic universe where he'll do commentary on the institutions that the paper has to cover without any editing oversight by the Courant. That makes the paper vulnerable."
The logic of that argument entirely escapes me.
5:13:11 PM 
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