It’s a sad day when a newspaper older than the incorporation of Colorado itself goes out of business.
The Rocky Mountain News, which published its first edition back in 1859, topped their last front page Friday with a letter to readers announcing they would be no more.
The newspaper covered Denver and Colorado.
Is this a sign of the end? Many of the television news stations seem to think so. I've already seen about handful of reports this morning about "The Day the Paper Died," "The End of Newspapers," "A Dying Industry."
It's amazing how television news will latch on to one topic and run with it. I doubt it's the end of news. Certainly, the fact that a publication as old as Rocky Mountain - which was less than two months away from turning 150 - has folded is depressing and ominous, it isn't a paralytic for the rest of the newspaper industry. Just a sign that newspapers, and journalism as a whole, need to work harder and faster at a cure to this disease called the Internet.
ugh, I hadn't seen the edition they put out. That makes it seem so much sadder.
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