Dead is dead, RW or LW. The Rocky Mountain News published its last edition today. [View All]

[originalpckelly]

There is something different about a newspaper.

It's so much harder to put out so many thousands, or millions, of copies of a physical object than it is to write words on a computer. This is both a benefit and a downside to the internet. Anyone can write anything on the internet, practically, but people have to support you in some manner in order to publish a physical paper.

It doesn't mean that papers don't have slants, or do not propagandize, it just takes more effort to get it going.

Today a paper I rarely read is going out of business, and I'm the reason it is. I read most of my news on the internet, or get it from a TV. I'm like most Americans today. That's why so many other papers across the country are going out of business.

Rocky just couldn't win this fight.