Posted on 02/27/2009 7:04:03 AM PST by Redbob
DENVER – Questions about the future of the Rocky Mountain News had become so common, the newspaper's staff put up a handwritten paper sign on the news desk that said, "We don't know."
On Thursday, someone wrote over it in heavy black marker: "Now we know."
Colorado's oldest newspaper, which launched in Denver in 1859, printed its last edition Friday, leaving The Denver Post as the only daily newspaper in town.
Since 2001, the News has shared business operations with The Denver Post in a joint operating agreement between Scripps and The Post's owner, MediaNews Group Inc.
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Chilling CHAMPAGNE for when I hear that the OLD GREY LADY will finally die!!
Don’t worry — I can take it. In fact, I thoroughly enjoy making others think.
This is not a time to be soft, either in body or mind, and some of the knee-jerk blabber by both right and left needs to be challenged.
If we truly do believe in the Constitution, in the rights it protects and the principles it advances, then we must defend all of it, not just what suits us at the moment.
LOL! Where do you do that?
Posting a contrary opinion on FR usually just makes a stink instead of making people think.
Conservative papers? Plural? Really? Can you name one?
I subscribe to a conservative periodical, and I might allow as to the possibility that there are several, but the last conservative paper I saw was a student paper back in the seventies that was hounded out of existance by the liberal majority at the university. The leftists called and threatened the advertisers until there wasn't any more income. They had to close.
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Unfortunately even your paper’s Letter To Mr. Ed are increasingly infected with crazy lying Socialists
I believe this will radically increase as Hussein the Unhung has funded hordes of radical propangandists in his Reparations & Wagyu Steak Bill
Resolved: that sam_paine and jedidah will think through the stink!
(And thanks for the grin.)
I smile a bit everytime a Deadtree media source goes out of business. Not because I want to see Free Speech die or people put out of work instead I smile because I know market forces are forcing out wasteful enterprises.
Dead Tree Media is slow and mostly stale by the time it hits the streets, not to mention the clossal waste of time , money and energy cutting and transporting dead tress around to make waste that ends up in a landfill.
Deadtree media will go the way of the buggy whip. Its not needed anymore with the internet and 3G communications filling the bill.
Yes, we have a lot of back and forth. Many of the most vocal are actually from tiny surrounding towns. One day it may be all pro Obama and then the retaliation comes. Can only write a letter to the Editor once a month.
I gave up posting on their forum, can't change their minds about anything and you get lambasted with lies.
I agree with you, mostly. But then the scaredy side of my brain starts thinking about EMP attacks and how we would live and communicate if we were suddenly deprived of technology.
We ought to have a memorial with the final day scans of the front pages of these papers as they die.
“A free press is in the Bill of Rights, too, folks”
That is the whole problem. They were not acting like a free press. They were in lock step with all the other liberal media and the FREE MARKET made a decision.
THE FOUNDERS WERE A BUNCH OF SLAVE OWNERS.
Do I believe that? No, but that's what you would probably read in most newspapers nowadays.
The liberal media doesn't want to report news. They want to push an agenda. Most see themseleves as the next Woodward and Bernstein wanting to "change the world."
It's this type of ilk that put Democrats into power and demonized Sarah Palin.
They will never change. They will only change via bankruptcy.
Awww, this makes me so sad.
/sarc
Now if only my local ultra liberal, 0bama a$$ kissing kennel liner would go out of business too.
You confound the right to a “free press” with the existence of those who happen to own a press.
The newspaper industry will be better off if the current papers fail and go under. Others news organizations will arise in their place. Everyone said that there was no room for new competition in the markets where Murdoch has shoved his way in - and yet he is on a more stable financial base than most all his competitors.
The current newspaper industry is every bit as subsidized and coddled as many other industries in this country, and they have been allowed to hide from the free market for decades. They have hidden behind “operating agreements,” bifurcated classes of stock to protect minority ownership of founding families, etc. Well, they’ve done themselves in over the years by alienating their advertisers (with lies about circulation) and their readers (by offending their common sense), all the while thinking that they were never going to he held to account by the forces of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.”
Well, they guessed wrong. Too bad, so sad, boo-freakin’-hoo.
The market abhors a vacuum, and information wants to be free. Other information outlets and businesses will arise in the vacancies left by newspapers.
Exactly right.
I smile even more, because waaaay back in the day when the web was something rather new and not yet popular, and we were all still chatting on USEnet, I made a remark that I was awaiting the day when newspapers would be killed off by the ‘net and the disinfectant of actual truth, discovered by citizens, distributed by citizens to other citizens, without newspapers, editors or “jouranlistic hacks” interposing their censorship and spin.
Some pompous ass of an editor puffed up on the newsgroup and thought he was giving me a reaming, spouting all manner of unctuous sniveling about how they were the ‘guardians’ of freedom, and so on. I pointed out that more often than not, newspapers were an echo, not a critique, of the government.
Whoops. It was at that point that Mr. Unctuous Editor then went *really* non-linear on me.
In the end, I remarked to those on the newsgroup that this was the supposedly measured voice of an “editor” who was demonstrating why we rabble could not be trusted to “be serious” in what we reported from first-hand observation. After that, he STFU and went off to stew in his swivel-backed chair, I suppose.
During the past year, I smile ever more to myself, thinking about how that stupid SOB is most likely out of a job as editor, and unless he’s retired, he’s probably been reduced to asking “Would you like fries with that?” a few hundred times a day...
Yes. It may well be that, vis-a-vis creative destruction vs liberal content, the former is greatly responsible for the demise of printed media. We are witnessing, as is said, the end of an era.
That, or scans of some of the more outrageous fabrications they've published, to remind us why we're glad they're gone!
And why not?
What, after all, does the study of "journalism" really train one to do?
What useful thing, I mean?
Have the liberals overrun your particular neck of the woods in Colorado yet? I’m sitting here in PA just watching things out there get bluer and bluer. Udall winning the Senate seat sealed it.
Hey, that's the same as our local fish-wrap.
I wonder if they're all like that?
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