Rocky Mountain News: Goodbye Colorado

[brooklynite]

Goodbye, Colorado

It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to you today. Our time chronicling the life of Denver and Colorado, the nation and the world, is over. Thousands of men and women have worked at this newspaper since William Byers produced its first edition on the banks of Cherry Creek on April 23, 1859. We speak, we believe, for all of them, when we say that it has been an honor to serve you. To have reached this day, the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, just 55 days shy of its 150th birthday is painful. We will scatter. And all that will be left are the stories we have told, captured on microfilm or in digital archives, devices unimaginable in those first days. But what was present in the paper then and has remained to this day is a belief in this community and the people who make it what it has become and what it will be. We part in sorrow because we know so much lies ahead that will be worth telling, and we will not be there to do so. We have celebrated life in Colorado, praising its ways, but we have warned, too, against steps we thought were mistaken. We have always been a part of this special place, striving to reflect it accurately and with compassion. We hope Coloradans will remember this newspaper fondly from generation to generation, a reminder of Denver’s history – the ambitions, foibles and virtues of its settlers and those who followed. We are confident that you will build on their dreams and find new ways to tell your story. Farewell – and thank you for so many memorable years together.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/27/goodbye-colorado/

[AndyA]

1. Good things always seem to happen when we let big media conglomerations

gobble up everything.

Scripps owns television stations and so many other things. This is another reason why there must be diversity in ownership today.

Sorry to see you go, Rocky Mountain News.

[Democrats_win]

2. Rocky, thanks for helping stop bush's foolish wars with facts..oh wait...

The Rocky Mountain News did not tell the truth about bush or his wars. The past few months have been rough on the losers who supported bush. I call it Karma. The fact is, people stopped reading newspapers because they supported wars. The internet gained.

Over the past 5 years, the Rocky has been disappearing anyway: the pages were much smaller, the print size smaller, and less content. The Rocky just shrank to nothing.

BTW: Scripps has owned the Rocky for as long as I can remember (over 30 years). But Scripps no longer wanted to be in the newspaper business.