There's an editorial in the Hartford Courant today about the 2008 Hartford Bike Tour that summed up the general feeling about the event thusly:
As one rider put it, "Wow!" The effect was stunning. If you see the city only from the highway, you are missing something. Hartford has well-documented difficulties, problems that need urgent attention. But to see the great city parks, the historic buildings, the new homes where dank housing projects used to be and the new schools is to realize that there is much here to fight for.
I wonder how they got their quote ("Wow!") from this "one rider" person? That's one hard-hitting interview and quite the display of journalism. They didn't even plug the Beat Bike Blog despite the fact that "one rider" was handing out handfuls of BBB stickers in his (or her) orange vest. Or so I would like to think...
And hey, in the comments so far, there's only one reference to bullet-proof vests!
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I was talking to a friend today discussing how pissed off I was that the current never reported on the event at all. The only pieces that made it into the paper were a very brief report about it several days beforehand and then this editorial 4 days after!! And as far as I know the Courant was a sponsor!! But hey, its the Courant and the Courant hates the Beat.
That and they already pulled the article down.
Considering that there were lots of cute kids there too. usually the Courant likes to have a sugary photo of a child or a pet animal on the Connecticut section and both elements were there! I don't get it. C'est con.
Hartford has a million events that the Courant never reports on. If you're interested in Hartford-community centric reporting, read the Hartford News.
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