Retreat to the Shadows. Legislative Management Wants Less Coverage, More Control.
The Connecticut General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Management released a Request for Proposals for operation of CT-N, the public service network that provides public affairs programming. The goal of the proposal is set forth in the RFP:
“The CGA is seeking to reduce the scope and spending for the production of CT-Network understanding that this reduction may require decreasing the amount and types of coverage.”
With the storm clouds continuing to gather over Connecticut’s government, it seems a curious time to reduce the public’s ability to engage its growing interest in public affairs. A reduction in the number of pieces of snail mail legislators create and send would save plenty of money to fund the dissemination of useful information.
Note in the RFP, linked here, vests an alarming amount of authority in the legislature to determine what events outside the legislature will be covered.