Business As Usual While Public Trust In The Media Disappears

The Washington press corps, for the first time in 140 years, did not offer the traditional toast to the sitting president at the annual Gridiron Club dinner.

The Hartford Courant in the 1960s.

When I graduated from college decades ago, I was hired as a reporter at The Hartford Courant, then the largest newspaper in Connecticut and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the country.

At the time, the Courant, founded in 1764, had hundreds of employees at its Broad Street headquarters and stationed in bur…