'Game over man, game over'

As most people have already heard, The Rocky Mountain News went the way of the successful Wall Street trader and published its last issue on Friday. The move came after a month-long attempt by owner E.W. Scripps Co. to sell the Colorado tabloid.

Being the cynical, often disinterested guy I am, I didn’t think I’d be affected by the paper’s closure like I was.

It’s not that I didn’t expect it.

I’ve been in a lot of the arguments over the years about whether newspapers  and journalism are dying and I try to keep up as best I can with the blackness that is the state of the industry. I read Romenesko religiously,  I keep in touch with all my furloughed friends and I watch the increasingly prophetic earnings reports from the major media companies. But like all good journalists who express their feelings through alcohol consumption, I tried not to let the bad news get to me. Read the rest of this entry »