Today the Rocky Mountain News will publish its last edition. As the website says, the paper was established two years before the Civil War broke out.
I truly hope the staff will put together a website or in some way continue for a while, but I don’t know if that’s possible.
I’ll be in Denver today, and I’m hoping I can get a paper copy.
Well, it is sad, the Rocky has been a part of Denver since there was a Denver. But things change, and the age-old axiom of “adapt or perish” has never been truer.
I find it telling that even now, when it’s all over but the yelling, Mr. Temple isn’t acknowledging that it was the Internet that killed the Rocky. Or, more precisely, it was the Rocky’s failure to adapt to the Internet that killed them.
I will miss the Rocky Mountain News, but I sort of miss vinyl records, too.
Yes, Bruce, I think you’re right.
I was able to get a copy today–at the DNA office.
Beth Partin’s last blog post..Crazy About Denver: Goodbye, Rocky
I wonder if the Rocky Mountain News had stayed out of the merger with the Denver Post and cut expenses if they could have survived.
BernardL’s last blog post..Older Market
I don’t know, Bernard. There’s only so much cost-cutting you can do on a newspaper before you don’t have enough staff any more. And the Denver Post has a mountain of debt.
Beth Partin’s last blog post..Crazy About Denver: Goodbye, Rocky
Not ashamed to admit I read their final edition yesterday and there were tears. An important part of Colorado is gone!
Amber’s Crazy Bloggin’ Canuck’s last blog post..Updates from the leper colony
Yeah, me too, Amber.
Beth Partin’s last blog post..Crazy About Denver: Goodbye, Rocky