The Rocky Mountain News closed its doors yesterday. Two months short of its 150th Anniversary the presses have gone dark. The story can be found here.
Detroit's two dailies have gone to three-day-a-week publishing schedules. Kansas City lost its morning paper in the 1980's. Papers all over America have been buying out staff left and right. I have become aware of this by watching ESPN which has several shows that feature newspaper writers, or now former newspaper writers.
What is there to say? The Rocky website chronicles the closing day adventure, but alas, no Rocky no more. What does it say about other metro dailies when the vaunted New York Times is having trouble making it? What does it say when columnists and writers get a severence and go on to TV? What does it say when a paper covers half the news because it can only afford to publish half the time?
I don't know, it may just be a case of "survival of the fittest," but I don't think it's the good news.
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