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These Comments Won’t Fly
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Business New Haven
2/8/1999
By: Betty Ford
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I read your recent “article” concerning Business New Haven's Citizen of the Year award (January 25) with great interest and enthusiasm.
Clearly Matthew Nemerson deserves your accolades and I applaud your choice of Matthew receiving this honor. Over the years Matthew has accomplished a great deal for our community of greater New Haven
I am troubled by the manner in which you chose to announce this prestigious award. You have carThese Comments Won't Fly
ried on an “interview” with questions being asked and Matthew providing “answers.” That is all well and good, but when the answers personalize and stereotype the community of East Haven and then pit the community and Tweed-New Haven Airport against each other we have gone beyond what I consider good taste.
The airport authority has since its inception placed a great deal of focus on our relations with the East Haven and New Haven communities surrounding the airport. We are all each other's neighbors, and comments such as you have expressed in your publication needlessly tend to inflame old wounds.
Your unintended jabs produced a heated discussion at one of our recent meetings of the Master Plan Committee and almost derailed the efforts of good will we have so assiduously sought over the past 18 months.
I do not think I would be out of line to request that Business New Haven publish this letter and/or a public apology. After all, I assume you are seeking readership in East Haven, too.
- Edwin V. Selden
Executive Director
Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport
The editor replies: One important point of fact Mr. Selden has gotten wrong here. In the question-and-answer article to which he refers, neither the questions nor the answers were Nemerson's. The piece plainly states that it is an interview with BNH Editor Michael Bingham regarding the award. Bingham supplied both questions and answers, including those which were plainly tongue-in-cheek. For more on this matter, see EDITORIAL, at left.
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK Business New Haven welcomes letters to the editor pertaining to subjects written about in these pages. Send to LETTERS, Business New Haven, One Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510, or faxed to (203) 781-3482. FAX: TO 203-781-3482 EMAIL business@businessnewhaven.com. Letters are subject to editing for space and clarity and must include the author's daytime telephone number for verification.
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