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I hate to use this metaphor at this painful moment. I only worked at the Courant for a short while - I learned *a ton.* But many of my closest friends were shoved aside by the vultures who hold the paper’s soul in a dirty vault somewhere far from CT & its communities /1 https://twitter.com/mattderienzo/status/1335054609866510336
It is time for the *great* people at the Courant to believe in the value of good journalism, rather than in printed paper, buildings, or publishing streaks, to rise to the challenge of rebuilding our industry /2
The people, and their community connections & institutional memory are more valuable than what’s left of the brand /3
Hold your head up and walk forward out of this hospice. @AldenCapital - your belligerent, self-absorbed demanding, selfish patient that you have so lovingly cared for all this time, is now refusing your help. You did *everything* you could /4
Websites are not expensive to build. Gather every email address you have ever collected from sources and send them a personal note. Tell them you are thinking of carrying on without @AldenCapital and the folks at @tribpub /5
You will likely find what @ctnewsjunkie & myself & hundreds of other @LIONPubs have found - when you show readers that you are willing to take a risk & invest in your own community, w/o a private equity firm siphoning away money, those readers and advertisers will support you /6
As @mattderienzo said, the great journalism that the Courant’s journalists did for generations was integral to our democracy. New, indy pubs w/o legacy brand baggage can & will fill voids created by the willful destruction of these papers by vulture capitalists. /end
