Killing an Employee's Blog

Interesting justification for killing a newspaper employee's off-the-clock blog: "Denis Horgan's entire professional profile is a result of his attachment to The Hartford Courant, yet he has unilaterally created for himself a parallel journalistic universe where he'll do commentary on the institutions that the paper has to cover without any editing oversight by the Courant," [Hartford Courant editor Brian] Toolan said. "That makes the paper vulnerable." Here we have a quotation awash with hyperbole and hubris from a person who may well look scornfully upon newspaper sources using the same rhetoric. If Horgan's blog were not now shut down, I'd be one of the many readers waiting to see how a person could artfully refute the almost certainly false assertion that his "entire professional profile" is owed to one employer, while retaining his job.