Another one gone
February 26, 2009
Denver joins the list of cities with only one newspaper.
The Rocky Mountain News publishes its last issue tomorrow.
It makes me damn thankful to live in a city where media outlets have to compete—it puts a fire under everybody to get out and dig. The Sun-Times broke the hired truck scandal and The Reader broke the systematic police torture. You get the kind of context you can’t expect to find on TV or radio soundbytes.
Just sad, that’s all. Nobody here wins, least of all the amazing reporters now out of work. It’s not a good time for anybody to be jobless, but with the Tribune Co. in bankruptcy and my old Gannett friends taking involuntary furloughs, it’s especially bad for the Fourth Estate.
