Comments on: Journal Register trainwreck laying waste to Nutmeg print media.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:23:11 +0000

#9 fraid to tell you but you don’t need the secret decoder ring for the moment to read headline news in the Hour on its main page.

You must realize by now most of the old timers are no longer with The Hour.

Thinks The Hour realizes Norwalk wants something new something honest something objective.

Who is the editor now can you name them?

#10 At least your fish are informed by the looks of The Advocate lately most articles come to the blog nowadays to rehash.Their reporters are known to stay the meeting at city hall and at least we get what actually went on deadline or not.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:32:35 +0000

The Hour is full of propaganda and yesterday’s articles from the Advocate. I quit subscribing to it 2 years ago.

It is good for wrapping fish.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:35:44 +0000

The Hour doesn’t “give” anything away online. They’re one of the only newspapers in Connecticut that REQUIRE you to purchase an online subscription before you can read any of their articles.

You may access the classifieds and the obituaries for free without any paid subscription, but if you want to read the articles, you have to pony up some bucks first.

The News-Times, CT Post, Advocate, Greenwich Time, and Brooks Newspapers are all online for FREE. No subscription needed. As are all of the weekly newspapers put out by Hersam/Acorn Press.

Only The Hour makes you PAY before being “allowed” to read it online.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:06:41 +0000

The Hour has seen the light!Giving away online news just like The Advocate,they must be hurting to give anything back to the city without Moccia’s name on it.Check it out they never had so many readers online before.

Now that most of their newsroom have been let go or quit maybe its time to work with the taxpayers and not against them.Some of the old timers will be missed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:47:34 +0000

To poster #5:

I don’t believe WTNH is owned by Hearst. However, the WTNH website uses the same Topix forum board that most of the online newspapers in Connecticut use – the Advocate, the News-Times, the Greenwich Time, the CT Post, and all Brooks Newspapers use Topix.

Topix is nationwide so you might be reading a post from John Smith in Wallingford and then reading one from Jim Jones in California, both of them responding to the same story or subject.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:48:52 +0000

Judge Kevin Carey said the company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant and other dailies, could pay $74 million that was owed to employees before Monday’s bankruptcy petition was filed. That total includes a cap of $10,950 per person but excludes payments for health care, long-term disability, reimbursable expenses, workers compensation and retiree medical care.

Its only going to get worse some say

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:50:53 +0000

When you start comparing newspapers in Ct look to media coopertaion.WTNH web site highlights Ct Post,Advocate and The Greenwich times on their website along with the papers news.I know the papers are related but is WTNH also a Hearst holding?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:27:54 +0000

Hey Barnstorm, you said an interesting thing. Do you know that The Hour is the ONLY newspaper in Fairfield County that makes you PAY to “subscribe” to its online edition? If all the other newspapers in the area offer FREE websites, why should anyone have to pay to view The Hour’s website? That’s where I draw the line. I refuse to pay to read that paper online. I buy it on Sundays only, and mostly just to get the store flyers.

As for the Advocate, the reason they have better Norwalk news than The Hour is because the Advocate has a Norwalk edition – or they used to, before they vacated their West Avenue offices. It was part of their ploy to take over the area and force The Hour out of business. Didn’t work, though.

By: Pluto

Pluto — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:58:43 +0000

I have a personal grievance with the Norwalk Minute dating back more than 10 years, but I’m Irish and we don’t forgive or forget – but I hate even thinking about the idea that I couldn’t have the sensual pleasure of working my way through the weekend NY Times. I make do with the computer news during the week because of work hours, but there’s just something so SATISFYING about ripping the Times apart.

By: Barnstorm

Barnstorm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:49:10 +0000

The Hour was a much better paper when it came out in the early afternoon. Ever since it became a morning paper it has gone steadily downhill. Most of the articles are cut & pasted from the internet and the local “reporters” they do use must have gotten their journalism degrees in Serbia. Why does The Advocate have much better and more timely Norwalk news than the Hour?

The Hour (motto: “Yesterday’s news first thing tomorrow”)could go out of business tomorrow and the local community would get over it pretty quickly. I sure wouldn’t pay for internet access to it if it stopped a print edition entirely.