Rocky Mountain News Says Goodbye

Rocky Mountain News:

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.

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Comments

[RGKahn]

Good Bye Rocky Mountain News. Up front I have to admit that as an Easterner I am not a reader of the paper. Having said that. I am saddened by the closing of another regional newspaper. The Rocky Mountain News has been the voice of Denver and of Colorado for over a hundred years and it will be missed.

[instagladiator]

I grew up in Denver during the "Happy Days" era, 50's, and always felt this paper was a leader in news coverage. It is very sad to see an institution of 150 years fade away, but then, all good things must come to end.
You will be greatly missed I'm sure.

[Dukedraven]

That paper was an institution. Littwin and the rest will be missed. Farewell Rocky Mountain News. They always said it would happen, but I didn't believe it.

[1differentdrummer]

Littwin, but not all of the rest. Isn't Mike actually going to the Post, as is Griego? The Rocky leaned too far right editorially and in many columns, as they always did when CO was a red state when actually CO is much more blue now. News sometimes even got a rightward slant. Why expect an increasingly liberal state to buy a right wing slant?

[rf dude]

" Poor Alfred Packer "

(chomp)...
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[CRGirl30]

Alferd, not Alfred . . .

[Bernique]

What is so sad is that this farewell isn't necessary. Newspapers usually returned 8-10% PROFITS. In the late 1990s, perhaps even earlier, when would-be media moguls "bought-out" the newspapers. They decided that in order to be considered "profitable" (to them), newspapers had to start turning in profits of 20+%!! -- which is an unreasonable demand for profits of ANY business but especially purveyors of NEWS (the milk of democracy or, err, democratic "republics" =news!). Thomas Jefferson made sure that newspapers had favored postal rates so that the people COULD get the news no matter what their economic clout. Of course, we know whose voices they wanted to silence. The muckrakers, the investigative reporters that would reveal "inconvenient" truths to the "powers-that-be" at the time (Dubya's, and earlier eras).

It is a sad day when GOOD newspapers go away, especially after 150 years!! And no, I don't buy the canard that "we now get our news from the internet". A fond farewell to Rocky Mountain News. May you resurrect very, very soon. We need you now more than ever!

[LaFlow]

Sad for my hometown paper.... Mike Littwin was probably one of my favorite columnists. I don't think this is necessarily good news for the Denver Post. I worry that they'll revert to New York Post and Boston Herald "reporting" tactics in an effort to sell newspapers.

I guess Westword is what I'll be reading when I'm in town next time.

[ohiomark]

I guess I'll have to find something else to wrap fish in.

[deeppeace]

Two heartbreaks: The loss of a newspaper and only 14 comments all day.

[SwingingFromCenter]

It's too bad that the Denver Post is the last newspaper there left standing. The RMN was always a superior product, and I liked their book layout as opposed to the traditional section design of the DP.

[hellboundtrain]

Yea, it hung nicely on the rack in the outhouse.

[richardmcnoggin]

Serves then right. When I lived in Denver I got so sick of the liberal bias I stopped delivery along with my entire family and several neighbors.

[Proxy11]

Anecdotal evidence is so passé. So when did you find out that the paper had a "liberal bias"; before you subscribed or after?

[richardmcnoggin]

I recieved the Rocky since I lived in Arvada for 38 years; It started downhill when the Post bought them.

[JMBrodie]

Unless they changed over the past couple of decades, I always saw the Rocky as the conservative paper.

That said, I will miss the competition and the differeing points of view between the Rocky and the Post.

[princessk]

I'll miss the letters to the editor referring to prairie dogs as "varmints."

[LeftWingX10]

Ultra Extravagant Epic Extraordinary Hand Wringing by the Professional Hand Wringers!!! See Ya!

[mono]

This time the economy is really toll on everyone.

Can't they be bailed out and then publish only three days a week.

In here, Detroit-Free-Press has cut down the publication, drastically. It's only on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday.

[SwingingFromCenter]

I'll never understand why the Freep is even still around. The Detroit News is all that area needs.

[surfcitysteven]

There was never enough room in Denver for two newspapers. They tried little tricks such as combining on weekends and such to keep them both going, but it was bound to happen. I'm surprised it took this long. There is only so much Bronco bs to report.

[salsmom]

It is terribly sad. It speaks volumes to a downward spiral I see our country embarking on - you will never have me believe that the internet can ever replace the journalism provided by local, daily newspapers.

[jalowe1957]

Sad. Tragic. Heartbreaking. Further words fail me.