One of my first experience with getting news online was following the JonBenet Ramsey story in the early part of 1997 on the web site of Rocky Mountain News. I was amazed at the coverage that I could get over the Internet. I was hooked.
Relevance? Well yesterday, in perhaps an ominous sign of things to come, the paper announced that it would shut its doors today. Done. Completely. Oddly, it's web site contains a video of the employees getting the bad news.
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2.27.2009
Journalism Death
One of my first experience with getting news online was following the JonBenet Ramsey story in the early part of 1997 on the web site of Rocky Mountain News. I was amazed at the coverage that I could get over the Internet. I was hooked.
Relevance? Well yesterday, in perhaps an ominous sign of things to come, the paper announced that it would shut its doors today. Done. Completely. Oddly, it's web site contains a video of the employees getting the bad news.
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The San Francisco Chronicle may be next. How long before the DMN and Startlegam follow suit?
Print is dead.
Was that you who called into Fox to propose to Megan to get her to stay?
Wonder if people are getting that much news on the internet?
As I read the paper, particularly on the opinion pages, I see side by side opposing views.......hard to miss.
Wonder if internet readers will only read one?
We are no longer considered white people. We are now considered Papaya Smoothie color.
The Wise County Messenger needs some competition (other than Barry's blog, of course). I cancelled my subscription last week because it hasn't been readable since Skip left.
People are not reading the newspapers or the internet but getting a little bit of news while they pass by the TV!
Wish you had covered the latest on the budget items regarding charitable donations and tax deductions for home mortgage! Obama has $100 million in budget for charities while taking away tax deductions for donations to universities, church, United Way, etc.
For all of you who do not understand how power hungry the hard left is or how far they will go to take local control away, now you know!
Everyone needs to talk to their family, friends and neighbors who may not be reading a newspaper or the internet!
The death of journalism in this country was a suicide. Once they decided that the politics of the left was more important than the communities they served and what used to be called journalistic integrity ...their fate was sealed. Good riddence to a lot of them.
9:36, not exactly. It's more a technology thing. Liberals are now a majority, so why would newspapers fall off the face of the earth if more and more people believed in what newspapers printed? People LOVE reading things that agree with them. It's HOW those liberals communicated and share ideas these days that's the culprit. Instant, and unfiltered, and electronic.
From a movie: "the last company to make buggy whips in this country probably made the best damn buggy whips you ever saw"....but it didn't matter because everybody wanted cars instead of things pulled by equines. Today, everybody wants internet, texting, blogs and not a roll of paper at their doorstep full of news they heard about the day before.
It's a combination of liberal bias and a failure to adapt to the Internet. Why subscribe to a newspaper when you can read it online for free?
Newspapers should charge subscription rates to read online, as the Wall Street Journal does!
It's a combination of liberal bias and a failure to adapt to the Internet. Why subscribe to a newspaper when you can read it online for free?
Yes, and this is why original reporting will soon be replaced by Joe the Plumber visiting every foreign crisis zone to report on how everything is Obama's fault.
The Denver Post is the main newspaper in that market, not this one. So it's not like Denver is without a newspaper.
My God, "those Liberals" are one powerful bunch. They have given "those Conservatives" the one-two, and the Cono's are reeling, falling, going down to the mat, waiting for the 10 count.
The Cono's still standing, are in the ropes, getting pelted by truth and common sense.
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