Douglas Thielen
9 Pheasant Drive
New Fairfield, CT 06812
[203] 746-4039
Letter to the Editor
COMMON CENTS, R.I.P.
This will serve to advise my readers that there will be no more bi-weekly Common Cents columns in New Fairfield’s weekly newspaper. I resigned in disgust last week.
In a nut shell, I am sick and tired of my column being butchered by the editor when I chose to disagree with the narcissistic administration on a hot button issue. I can’t imagine what you could do worse to a writer than to over-edit, twist and contort his or her column and then publish the resultant distortion without advising the writer. The latest machete job was done a few weeks ago and was far from the first time the editor chose to pull the rug out from under me. That has been a periodic occurrence over the Common Cents’ 6+ years of publication.
There are numerous reasons floating around to explain this unprofessional behavior. Admittedly, I have taken frequent exception of the way New Fairfield is being administered as if it were a monarchy, but that is exactly the current administration’s method of running the town. Was the editor threatened with a frivolous lawsuit related to something I wrote? Although without substance, the costs to defend such a lawsuit would bankrupt the paper. That seems to be the most logical explanation, but we’ll never know the truth.
I refuse to allow my Op-Ed column to be adulterated and myself set up as New Fairfield’s political piñata in the process.
I am asking the News-Times to publish this letter since I know it will not be edited. The News-Times has integrity and does not do that.
Doug Thielen
New Fairfield
746-4039
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