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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We sure don’t need a gang of “free press” that is all in lock step with each other and only with one political party. NOT a sad day for anyone.
Dead Tree Media goes out of business? Who would have thunk it?
Even with its recent slide to the left, Denver will be worse off without the Rocky. The Post is the one that should have been killed. The truth of the matter is that Scripps didn’t want to save the Rocky. They could have buried the Post back in the 90s but didn’t.
I thought we celebrate the Bill of Rights — right to bear arms and all that?
The Rocky has been collectivist fish-wrap for over twent-five years.You confuse a free press with newspapers.
However, those filthy rags, and their owners and editors have only two things in mind;Elect a democrat at all costs, on all ballots, and turn this country into a socialist utopia. News be damned, truth be damned, vilify and obfuscate, sort opinions from news, and flush actual news or slant it in their favor. Screw them, and their ilk.
/jaw drop
/boggle
What reality do you exist in?
It’s hard for me to comprehend the effort it must take to have remained completely blind and deaf to the world around you.
I think you miss the problem completely. We also have free choice to read what want and spend our money as we see fit. It has nothing to do with the Free press. They are free to continue printing something nobody wants.
Isn’t someone supposed the trademark “Dinosaur Media Deathwatch” or something like that?
Something else will rise from the ashes, most likely on the Internet. We do not need "gatekeepers" of information, especially when those self-proclaimed "gatekeepers" can't be trusted to do the right (or American) thing. And as far as the Bill of Rights is concerned, the media only cares about this document when it suits their needs. They'll do their jobs in hyper-drive when a Republican admin is in office or the GOP controls Congress. But when the Dems are in charge, forget about it. They happily sit by and watch the country circle the bowl, because they agree with the steps being taken to "fix" the problems. Sorry, no sympathy here.
The larger and remaining paper in Denver is more left leaning.
Stuff and nonsense. The gloating is not about the death of an organ of free speech as others have commented, any more than it would be if we were gladdened that a person who spoke twisted truths was heard no more. We upheld their right to be heard by not firebombing their offices and by maintaining the system of law that would punish such actions. No further support is owed to a particular speaker.
Put another way, you confuse the Bill of Rights with a license to lie, distort and mislead, free from criticism and free from the forces of the market place of ideas (and technology).
Folks, it’s not just liberal papers in peril...
Conservative papers have lost viewership and advertising, sometimes at a FASTER rate.
The libertarian paper I write for is okay right now, but it is tight and still a bit scary. This is not just a liberal paper issue. Often center-right papers like the Washington Times already have smaller circulations anyway, so any drop will have a greater impact.
The Internet, the economy.....everything is coming together for a perfect storm.
The problem is, conservative papers are doing just as bad or even worse.
The only reason my economically conservative paper is doing okay is that they run a ship so tight you barely any anything budgeted for office supplies.
we need free presses...true
but we don’t have that anymore, nearly all of them are collaborators
You seem to be missing something. The point of all the gloating is not that we are losing our first amendment, but rather that the liberal main stream media LIBERAL MSM is losing SOME influence. Every little bit helps.
The fact that the liberal press has and continues to greatly influence public opinion toward liberalism, and away from conservative principles, is not at all a loss to conservativsm.
We still have a voice, at least for now, but it sure as heck is not promoted by any newspaper that is run by liberals.
Back to the horse and ‘buggy’ days. My newspaper seems to be holding on. In mid size towns where you tend to know a lot of people, you are more apt to want to keep up with local news.
We need to figure out how to do this to network TV News. Fox is owned 10 or 15% with Saudi money. The rest are just as bad. They killed us in 008 and are killing us now with their messiah fawning.
You've got a great point, but I'll bet you're taking a drubbing here Jed!
True, all the MSM is lefties, true all they're interested in doing is electing Democrats.
However, but all us NRA'ers are righties, and all we're interested in is electing, well, conservatives (not RINOs.)
When it gets to the point that we want the Press to go out of business because they want us to lose our guns, then the "Bill of Rights" has really lost its meaning. The point of the Constitution was as a pact that we'd defend each other's rights to say/do something we disagreed with (we'd defend their right to be anti-gun, and they'd defend our right to be anti-communist.) Turned out to be a suicide pact after all.
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