How an Arrogant Journalist Helped Crucify Columbus in New Haven

Culture
Mary Grabar
October 10th, 2020 8:37 AM

Since 1892, a statue of Christopher Columbus in New Haven’s Wooster Square has been a place where Italian Americans rallied on Columbus Day. It’s gone now, another victim of the current fashion of erasing our history. It’s gone partially thanks to the willful ignorance and…

 

Conn. Newspaper: Sorry, We Did Not Mean to Compare Fox News to KKK, Ju

Howard Portnoy
August 1st, 2013 2:15 PM
If you’re a fairly large daily paper and you’re looking to make a complete fool out of yourself, you can find a how-to primer in the editorial pages of the New Haven Register. It goes something like this: Accuse a rival news organization, whose views on race you disagree with, of deriving its inspiration from the Ku Klux Klan. Then realize how dumb you sound, and write a retraction. Then lather…