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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

10/07/08 A Greenwich Blogger Points Out What A Total Failure The Greenwich Time Editorial Page Is, In A Very Civil Way

Blogger Chris Fountain Is Perfectly Polite To
Greenwich Time Managing Editor Jim Zorba



Going boldly where no editor has dared tread before.

Greenwich Time runs a hard-hitting editorial on property taxes today. It starts off with the usual liberal lament that Greenwich doesn't pay enough taxes and Waterbury too much then, perhaps sensing that its readers might not agree with that proposition, switches gears and rails againt wasteful spending: that ought to appeal to these damn skinflint Yankees!

I was under the obviously mistaken impression that editorial writers took a position and then defended it. Our local paper differs, and has instead produced another soggy opinion piece that says and concludes nothing. I don't purchase the Greenwich Time so I suppose I have no cause to complain about the salary paid to its editor, but talk about wasteful spending ....

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