Hurling the Herald

I've decided that The Eye's Ed McKeon was a bit too modest yesterday. He posted on The Eye about the closure of the Bristol Press and the New Britain Herald, but failed to link to his excellent editorial on the subject from his own blog, Caterwauled.

Ed wrote his tribute to old-fashioned newspapers in this new-fangled medium of blogging, which sometimes feels like the only thing holding up the fourth estate these days.

You can read Ed's piece here.

Journal Register to close two local papers

The Hartford Courant published a story this morning that the Journal Register Company is closing the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press. The Middletown Press apparently remains viable as a "profitable" paper.

New Britain has a community newsblog, which will have to take up the slack in reporting municipal and community news.

Bristol too has a newsblog which reported on the closings yesterday. Ironically, Bristol is the home of the largest sports news and information network in the world, but it won't have a daily paper.