To the Editor,
I was wondering if you could clarify something. Just recently, I moved to Greenwich from New York because of a job transfer. Choosing the morning newspaper was an easy decision.
It was the NYT or the WSJ in the morning, and the NY Post on the way home. Here, in CT, what do people read? From what I have seen, the local newspapers are like my high school newspaper. I can't even credit the locals with being on par with my college newspaper. Here, it's opinionated, one-sided garbage (no offense).
I must tell you, I appreciate finding the Greenwich Roundup. I think your web site provides a lot of level-headed news. Like everyone else, I enjoy a laugh now and then. The gossip columnist "dishing??" out junk like Bonilla spotted leaving the ATT store. Is that a joke or is someone really paying that person a salary?
Thanks,
T.C. COMMENT:
Dear TC,
Actually Online I Read the NY Post, New York Times And Wall Street Journal, before I read the Greenwich Time. That's why there is a high number of links about Greenwich from those three newspapers.
I have been told that the New York Times has a higher penetration rate in Greenwich, than the Greenwich Time has. That means that more households in Greenwich read the New York Times instead of the Greenwich Time. This is particularly true in the wealthier sections of Greenwich.
The free weekly publications like the Greenwich Post also have more print readers than the Greenwich Time. I am told that the Greenwich citizen has a print run of 25,000 copies each issue, while the Greenwich Time prints well under 10,000 copies each week day.
The Greenwich Time has been the biggest local joke for years. Blogger Bill Clark likes calling it the "Yellowich Time", because of it's repeated failure to take on the powers that be.
Personally, I like calling it the Green Kitty Litter Liner, but privately wish that the news paper would get it's act together and properly report on the power base that Greenwich is.
It is time for the Greenwich Time it afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted in town.
There are signs that the Greenwich Time is growing a pair of Journalistic Balls.
Today on line the new Greenwich Time Editor David McCumber allowed reporter Debra Friedman to name the Greenwich slave master wanna be on the front page, just like his alleged extortionists were named on the front page weeks ago.
For weeks the wealthy so-called Greenwich Sugar Daddy was given anonymity and preferential treatment by Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter and the Greenwich Police department, only because he was wealthy and lived in town.
As for Susie "The Dish", Only God knows why Bruce Hunter recently rehired her after the Greenwich Time had fired her last May.
I heard Susie was working for free at the Greenwich Post after the Greenwich Time fired her, but now I assume that Bruce Hunter is paying her while letting real news reporters go.
I was at a Glory Days diner diner and some of the patrons were making jokes about Susie's so-called Gossip column. One guy said that he has given Susie fake celebrity sightings in the past and she has printed them.
After hearing this I have been tempted to call up Susie and give her a fake so called "news tip" like....
Susie, I just saw Ralph Lauren pumping gas in his bight yellow convertible at the Mobil station.
Why Susie can't seem to find celebrity news in Greenwich, when major out of town newspapers find real celebrity dirt every week is beyond me.
Just the other day, The New York Post was reporting that multi-millionaire Peter Brandt's supermodel wife was sleeping in the maid's quarters as they started to reenact the "War Of The Roses" in their massive Greenwich mansion.
But Susie is too busy to cover this story, because she is getting paid with free bar drinks to report that a C list celebrity has just ordered over-priced pasta at an old Greenwich restaurant.
Thank You For Your Readership
Sincerely,
Greenwich Roundup
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