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"No one needs to hear that."
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on August 5th, 2010 at 12:17:32 pm, 8421 views
A few days after the horrible scene in Manchester where eight employees of Hartford Distributors were shot to death, two others wounded and the gunman then took his own life--we continue to be asked by a small number of people why we have used the word "… more »
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Why You Will Not See The Cruz Warrant Here
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on July 19th, 2010 at 05:30:41 pm, 4135 views
After some discussion amongst our newsroom staff today, I've made the decision not to post the full text of the arrest warrant in the case of Francsico Cruz, the 19 year old who is charged with the brutal rape and murder of 16 year-old Chloe Ottman last… more »
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Why it was important to see the Milford Crash
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on November 18th, 2009 at 02:19:17 pm, 6358 views
This morning's email brought a handful of messages from viewers who found it troubling that we would choose to show the footage from the dashboard camera inside a Milford PD cruiser, which documented the horrible crash from this past June that claimed two teenager's lives. more »
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Time for media to talk back
Posted by Lisa DiVirgilio, Online Content Producer on October 6th, 2009 at 10:37:10 am, 2147 views
Working in an era of news where print text no longer cuts it and people can't make an appointment to always watch the broadcast at a certain time of day, we as journalists depend heavily on new "breaking news" alerts sent through venues such as Facebook… more »
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Naming Names
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on September 16th, 2009 at 07:58:34 pm, 2092 views
It has been over a week now into the coverage of the homicide investigation of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student who went missing and then ultimately whose body was found in a basement wall of the Yale research lab building where she worked.The sto… more »
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Remembering Cronkite
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on July 17th, 2009 at 10:42:40 pm, 3894 views
On this Friday night, we have gotten word that Walter Cronkite has passed away at age 92.There will be countless tributes to the man and his remarkable career as the anchorman of "The CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981. Not just because he is the c… more »
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What do you report, when you are asked not to report?
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on July 9th, 2009 at 01:36:51 am, 1947 views
Tuesday’s kidnapping and hostage standoff in South Windsor, led to an ethical dilemma inside our newsroom through the afternoon. How do we handle covering a story--where the police have specifically asked us not to broadcast the same story?This stor… more »
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ABC News's "Prescription for America": Informative or Infomercial?
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on June 25th, 2009 at 12:55:38 am, 1368 views
As my colleague Jeff Bailey noted in an earlier post here, we were expecting some people to exercise their constitutional rights tonight and protest airing of the ABC News special "Prescription for America" that was broadcast from 10 to 11pm (and continu… more »
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