Rocky Mountain News closes
Published by Avi Green on Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 1:26 PM.
If there's any major casualty of the loss of interest in mainstream papers, it looks like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado, is just that. They're closing now, after almost 150 years in publication.
What else could this suggest? That even Scripps-Howard News Service, the communications corporation that owns them, is having financial problems of its own. I wonder just how many staffers have been let off at their division, and just how many nationally syndicated articles they distribute have had to be cancelled as a result?
I won't be missing the RMN, if they've ever resorted to the kind of leftism I've grown to find distasteful. I won't be surprised if more newspapers like them will soon follow on the trail of cancellation, as the public continues to lose interest in MSM outlets that refuse to do any real service for them.
What else could this suggest? That even Scripps-Howard News Service, the communications corporation that owns them, is having financial problems of its own. I wonder just how many staffers have been let off at their division, and just how many nationally syndicated articles they distribute have had to be cancelled as a result?
I won't be missing the RMN, if they've ever resorted to the kind of leftism I've grown to find distasteful. I won't be surprised if more newspapers like them will soon follow on the trail of cancellation, as the public continues to lose interest in MSM outlets that refuse to do any real service for them.
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