Corporate Governance

Churchill v. University of Colorado: The Times They Are A Changing (Part 2)

By J. Robert Brown

Want further evidence that things have changed since 2005 when, as David Lane put it, it was "All Churchill, All the Time?" 

The Denver Post (now the only daily newspaper in Denver) had a very brief article (maybe 120 words and written by Joe Aguilar at the Daily Camera) on page 2B indicating that opening arguments would begin today.  Aguilar was also blogging live from inside the courthouse.  There were a few other reporters (seven people sat in the press section) and Mike Littwin made a visit during the day (so a column may be looming).  A discussion board on the Denver Post attached to an article published Monday, had, by Tuesday morning, the second day of the trial, only 26 comments. 

Certainly any decline in local coverage may be in part the loss of the Rocky but it also reflects reduced interest. The apparent absence of any significant contingency from the national press likewise points to indifference in most of the rest of the country.  With most focused on the economy, the isolated musings of a single professor at a state university don't pack the same wallop, however incendiary they had been.  It perhaps is a metaphor for the distance the country has come since 2005.

Full post as published by The Race to the Bottom on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).