Eulogy — Rocky Mountain News

By Friday February 27, 2009

Perhaps they should have done more of these videos years ago.



32 Comments
  1. OvenMaster says:
    2/27/2009 at 3:28 pm

    Amazing. A paper like the Rocky closes, yet my own local daily birdcage liner keeps on printing two-day old news.

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  2. Tim says:
    2/27/2009 at 3:28 pm

    blackman who works at rocky:

    “I’m not worried I’m gona marry a rich white man……….O’h and there’s no such thing as white, it’s more like papaya smoothie”

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  3. Carcarius says:
    2/27/2009 at 4:47 pm

    http://techdirt.com/articles/20090224/0103083878.shtml

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  4. dcphill says:
    2/27/2009 at 4:47 pm

    Very sad. It looks like all those folks, workers and management just put their hands up and surrendered. Where were the leaders who should have said “Hell no we won’t go”?
    I just can’t fathom how managers couldn’t
    figure out a way to stay in business providing
    a needed and popular product. Perhaps giving
    away product free on the internet is one cause.
    The Chronicle in San Francisco will be going the same way unless they can sell their product
    for a profit/operating funds to keep going…..

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  5. brm says:
    2/27/2009 at 5:20 pm

    #10:

    “The issues with most newspaper is you just can change a business model over night.”

    Well, this is a problem.

    If a factory can retool and stay competitive, a friggin’ newspaper should be able to do likewise.

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  6. Bastian says:
    2/27/2009 at 7:05 pm

    I felt a little guilty cause of my lack of compassion… I’m apparently not alone. That guy who wanted to grow old in the same job–Err, creepy!

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  7. k.g. says:
    2/27/2009 at 10:18 pm

    I love the amount of snooty tech elitism in this thread by people who lack the intelligence to differentiate journalism from news. Newspapers are important and necessary because they provide stories in a manner which is wholly different than what is provided on blogs and news websites.

    Blogs like Politico and TPM have broken many stories over the past few years, but it is still newspapers like the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times who break stories which are larger and more complicated than what can be fit into 400 words. Stories which require months of research and digging and tell a bigger narrative, not “guess what just happened.”

    Who is going to fill that void when people won’t pay attention to anything that can’t be easily digested? But hey, enjoy basking in your holier-than-thou pseudo-intellectualism, you’ve earned it by purchasing shiny items from Apple.

    BTW, the journalists over at BoingBoing copy-pasted the most amazing link on how to knit a Star Wars beanie that looks like R2-D2. It’s fucking groundbreaking.

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  8. rzwo says:
    2/27/2009 at 11:38 pm

    I don’t get the argument of ‘hard to change’ business model aren’t all business models supposed to be give the customer value? Craigslist gives value. My current hometown paper gives me a page full of ads worst that a AAA baseball scoreboard. No obvious classified’s link to even try to compete with Craigslist… I have to page down 3 times to get to something that looks like a paper! abqjournal.com — these guys don’t get it.

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  9. ecp3031 says:
    2/28/2009 at 5:02 am

    #27, your first two paragraphs get it. The last two fall of the tracks a little. Print Journalism ( not rumor mongering as many bloggers do) has an important part in our society.Yeah , the world is changing, but take a break and enjoy a well done newspaper.

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  10. OvenMaster says:
    2/28/2009 at 7:18 am

    #27: “BTW, the journalists over at BoingBoing copy-pasted the most amazing link on how to knit a Star Wars beanie that looks like R2-D2. It’s fucking groundbreaking.”

    What, no link?

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  11. James Hill Owns This Place says:
    2/28/2009 at 10:07 am

    One more dead liberal institution doesn’t mean shit. Anyone who thinks otherwise will wind up extinct as well.

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  12. mark says:
    2/28/2009 at 12:42 pm

    Perhaps the wall of flat screen tv’s might have contributed towards the end of this era???

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